choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... write. It's been a while since I've done that, in part because I've been ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post.
In one week, I need to
bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like
.112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese.
But what else would you expect from a school where
The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito."
The last time I was on an
is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening
I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... in hats and my cousins and my brother and my sisters and my best friend
I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... arrive in Harvard Square
10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's
This particular ... professors, whether it's in an academic context like office hours or running
school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note
effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... even formative moments, in some way, will vanish from my internal stores ... elsewhere, the current students, even some of the graduates—are in a unique
exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in.
9:15 AM. Since I can ... temp.
9:45 AM. I am putting the DNAs back in my box when I discover that
admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... , but I got in, and he didn’t.
When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application
prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version.
8:15 -- The ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery
-calculus-by-second-grade math majors, kids who’ve competed in national olympiads, freshmen and ... simple.
I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... , Michelle. You were Good at Things in high school, remember? You won stuff
this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even
admissions.
I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science.
If I had studied social science prior to college ... find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in