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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning ... ’m on a completely different path than I was last January. Most of you ... attention was trained on fall of 2015. For me (like I think it is for a lot of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring ... worth it to be in the presence of so many bright and thoughtful people on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  alive for about two years. I did theater, which saved me in a lot of ways ... Maine ended with me alone in an AirBnB on the brink of (or maybe full-on ... news for all of you MIT applicants an incoming students: These, on their

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  , and go to study breaks on my new floor. I'll enjoy the company of all ... lot of it was way over my head too. Apparently it's a lot of topology ... -Spain) but she was in a meeting. On my way to my advisor's office I waved to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... back on this day, I feel a lot of tenderness for the girl I was. I wish I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my ... moving apparatus of Next House. Jen sat down on a [annotation note ... size of a foot. It was on this order of magnitude, probably, but my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  dinner, met many of our new potentials, and hung out at the house ... . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in fraternities, I'm basing everything primarily on my fraternity. The two dozen

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  , working out how to compute integrals on my own or creating new methods of ... 's move on please.) The first day of physics was spent reveiwing derivatives ... physics (which, by the way, I didn't receive official intstruction on until

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try ... Swift’s new album, and start digging myself out of my inbox. 11:11 am: I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  , working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of ... for two weeks I fed myself in a couple of different ways this IAP. For ... two tins of sardines as well as a can of green beans that I bought on a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my ... the house instead of disaffiliating because I wanted to explore this new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  Ruth. Then, on the way back from dinner, we were discussing Sam, Mitra ... DID YOU KNOW? John McCain is 2.41 Saturn years old. Funny story. On the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  new Nano facilities, and a sense of what a perfect summer day on the ... do the same.  The specifics of what I do or the path from here on out and the timing of it all… I don’t know! But it feels good to clarify the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  no recollection of being warned that the sedative was on its way. I ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves ... being played on fast-forward. It felt like my teeth were rearranging

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  significance of each new data set to the Specialized team. One of the company ... of humans and their sporting goods, however, remain difficult to ... about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

    To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... on the campus of Carnegie Mellon for a leadership conference. As the ... introduced to, Oliver. Main Entre: I hopped on the redeye MegaBus to New

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  Linux on a potato. But last night in Next House, a very different kind of heraldry was underway. This story begins on November 24, when a group of ... of them on harmonica. We met at about 10:00pm to practice, which ended

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  of given up on this, because like the New Englander I am, I do have a ... on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman ... funny way of working themselves out. I’m definitely applying to MISTI

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... )." -"Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services", Science, November

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007