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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... grasped two other seats and sat down on the new low seat. Then a boy came ... chromosome would disappear completely. Would a new set of sex chromosomes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  school in astronomy. As a result, the contents of the binders on my ... , it’s all space physics: notes on the fate of stars, on how galaxies ... of a project. I own it, even if goodness knows it wasn’t my idea. When

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this ... lot of hopes for this summer. I'm excited to explore New York. I want to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  . Not necessarily a bad thing, but kind of weird. Also on my list was a ... physically possible with a grad astrophysics class on top of everything else. I ... a semester now, and we're good friends, but the RLAD is new so there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... important ways: I had to redefine my self worth to be less focused on ... your transition challenges you in a multitude of ways. I hope that you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  of my depth. I was also looking into ways I could intersect my ... hustle and bustle and the flow of people, conversation, and goods to and ... developed and tested on site as part of our midterm project. We tested a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as ... about it here and here) and has made appearances on the fingers of Tony ... of the classroom where we’d meet twice a week. But on February 10th

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... which patterns ring true. I like this feeling of finding a new space which ... be safe; and trying to have a good time anyway.  That isn’t a new

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  stereotypical MIT student may or may not be true, depending on whose version of ... fraction of non-Windows users. And so on, and so on. What really matters, though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  way out. I find Petey parked on Memorial Drive outside New House; I hop ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] picture courtesy of petey[/caption]   On the way to ... , it's a form of exercise that's not rigorous at all, it's a good way to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  you on campus. We get to find out which of you we'll be host ... - make use of this chance to get a head-start on deciding where you want to ... around on their computers coding all day. People here come from a range of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... 'd had no idea that she was my Big...she had still been thinking of a good way to reveal it, and had decided to make her speech on an impulse. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  's been very friendly and generous, going out of their way to include me in ... One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I ... , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... fewer than 4% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I ... worse because of it. Aim for a good night's sleep if there's something ... some advice that way. I can even offer a few other pointers on some study

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  particularly on Thursday nights so usually my weekends consist of me going out with a bunch of friends on Thursday, having a great time, and then going ... feelings again. I also then took myself out on a solo date of sorts and got

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  goodness principle makes—must be dependent solely on some property of these ... depend on some property of the action performed, and thus we have a new ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  of boxes on top of my chest of drawers, and two full suitcases + three ... Observatory to give talks, mine on pulsars and Raphael's on the exploration of ... skyline appeared, and we finagled our way onto Memorial Drive and into New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I ... scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  cold fluorescent light of Stud 5? Ech. there's so much good ethnic food! I may have raved about Mexican fast food before, one of my favorite ... As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022