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  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... personalities. This is in part why one of my favorite websites this year has been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... ! Camp.    ——   Two days of the camp later, it was back to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  when I finished people applauded.     Of all the things I ... Sabrina's work as an excellent example of what an MIT education can make you capable of making.       May 15-19: ISEF @ LA   This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  theme parks host a variety of runs throughout the year.  Many are themed ... Disney World and Disney Land do an unthemed series of runs.  Disneyland ... Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... , Thirteen Ways of Looking. Another best-selling author, Claire Messud, came to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

    In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short ... sleeve shirt instead of my sister's Tin-Tin t-shirt with the arms cut

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... in this blog post, on Friday morning, that two of our minifigures had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... doesn't really count. Wednesday marked a year since the death of an MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all ... outside of an intimidatingly professional LLP office. Sometimes I wonder ... transformations on top of this weird spiral?    Much less likely. With enough

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  nostalgia with a #ThrowbackThursday: PCTI Class of 2013 Graduation with my ... changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... of my entire MIT life. For one, I had a guaranteed social life. For two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... bottom of the email, after we had already (extensively) drafted, reviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your ... the vast majority of your peers passed the swim test as fresh ... badly sprained and a small bone in your foot was broken. Courtesy of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face ... skipped band. Terrified at the prospect of my school calling my parents to ... . The essence of her response was: it's fine, do what you need to do, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out. Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012