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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a café, or (dare I say it) constantly refreshing the decisions.mit.edu page ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five-page ... probably won’t be cleaning much in college either, but at least know that ... plan on eating at the dining halls a lot, but it would be helpful to know

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my Physics gradebook while obsessively refreshing the page, hoping my grades ... up a breakfast burrito at Qdoba and camped out in a little park just

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... algebraic groups with a friend at midnight before a biology pset is due may ... Science Fair front page). She tells us with a contagious excitement how

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs ... will appear at the back of my consciousness. It will be vivid and ... reminisce about their times at the Institute and acknowledge its influence on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  course), “This does not seem trivial at all and some of us did not have ... meantime. Listen to Wikipedia, where changes to Wikipedia pages ... best resources you have; they’re there to poke fun at you, talk sense

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  at the same time? Probably not. But there should be. Because how else ... classes. At the activities midway, a two hour event in which many of MIT ... ) could fill a couple pages. Let’s just say I finally settled on my fall

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  say upon our arrival the seafaring natives looked at us a tad queerly ... !” proclaimed the old man. “On Pi Day, at Tau Time, our peoples will join together ... wisdom. And thereafter they honored Pi Day – 3/14 – at Tau Time – 6:28 PM

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  've been through this past year. So instead, I'm going to start at the very ... 't assign problem sets at all. That might have been a bad thing though, since ... with garba at Milan, an event organized by MIT SAAS (South Asian American

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to ... at everything. The command "Begin exercise. Begin exercise." came over ... was a simulated base attack, and some of the cadets were "injured" at

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home ... bright, very geometric, and hopefully will keep me awake late at night ... it into the front page of The Tech! I made some movies of the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  'm hosed beyond all imagining, but as it's basically my LAST WEEK AT MIT ... ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday May 1, 2009. 11:37 PM I just created the following page according ... didn't have a thesis to do in order to graduate, would you be in LMP at 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  . Each semester, the Math Department (and most other majors at MIT) hire a ... ...ever since I finished a linear algebra test that let out at 12:30. I'd gotten ... set is due at 5 PM, but everything's going smoothly - I started with the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  , helpful things to guests. As I walked by the security tent at the foot of ... commencement staff weren't the only people who'd gotten up at the butt-crack of ... waiting at the gates: That's awesome though because they then got the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  to two synchrotrons: The one at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the one at Cornell. Synchrotrons are pretty cool, check out this Wikipedia page to find out more about them. I worked with Eric officially for pay

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  watching 230-lb guys (who can also throw a ball at 99 mph) Irish step dancing ... , at which point we all piled into the elevator and proceeded to cheer on ... Chemistry II) may be my favorite classes I've taken at MIT thus far, but that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  , and good thing, too, since I'll be working at NASA this summer building ... a half-page form), but still go in and talk to my advisor from Aero ... . Which, yes, at this point I'm just bragging but LOOK AT THE COOL THINGS

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name ... called me at the telethon last year." And so the admissions cycle comes ... , really awesome. My story went like this: Mystery Hunt began at noon on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  've been at school.. I watched Say Anything for the first time and have ... mentioned. "I have a fourteen-page paper on the development on 16th century ... , and while it's perfectly acceptable - even expected, at 18 years old

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  equally German last name is also on Hillel's mailing list, so at a university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... unsubscribe myself, and at that time I loved reading e-mails! I didn't worry too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006