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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I ... hoping its selection somehow involved science, since I pipette things all ... science at all. I was crushed. (The feeling lasted about two seconds. Give

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  due to excess carotene. So, I'm not Jewish. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But no, really, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little bit ... that to MIT Hillel! I think that one time there was some form or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  There are a few questions that I've often wondered if people were curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my first entries, but I assume that I've picked up new readers since July '05

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  It's been a while since I've done a Questions Omnibus... Harlan '10 wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no ... : "Should I have my November scores rushed to MIT?" And Sarah Bana followed ... rolls around and you're thinking "gee, I should probably send my scores to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the secret numerical language everyone seemed to speak and I barely knew a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... -MIT life has taken them on, I, uh, never actually left MIT.  See, after graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... an IAP post: what I did, what I thought. Which was a lot, on both counts, because my IAP was… very packed. I knew from the beginning that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  This week, hands down, has been the most chaotic one of my life. I feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  months here, and given the recent decisions regarding Senior House, I want to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted when it came to housing. I didn’t go to CPW, I didn’t look around at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat ... statistics and stuff. If you were watching, you may remember that I went off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a movie/drama/DDR marathon! So I found my friends Tuesday and asked, "Have ... 's my chance to STUDY!" "I have some major catching up to do!" "AHHHHH

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  So I was going to draft this entry last night (I went as far as typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made just about three years ago this week when I was a freshman and still sort of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... curated Spotify playlists. I was, however, a bit hesitant about the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I’m kidding, mostly). Let’s answer the top five questions people ask me when I ... Emphasis with capitalization."][/annotation] [annotation note="cj: i asked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  it's interesting whenever i blog because i've always been using what i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to compose english, including punctuation. so i always capitalize when

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018