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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  she speak up more aggressively for her ideas, and do a better job of ... people who do. In grad school I was in a department for zoology and botany ... dream? Do I need a dream? I don't have an answer to that question. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  do, then get off and let the next person on.   MIT helped advance a ... similar to cloud computing? Think of your laptop. How many hours a day do ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... videos. At the time, I was thinking a lot about the foods I eat and their ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  class or take any exams and you do not get a grade ... a lot.  I didn’t do that well in the class but had a good experience ... how much you are doing. there is usually a lot to do but there are ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  you need to do is make sure you shop at a place that accepts it (which ... Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... ! By this time my standards were pretty high. Let’s face it, I’d gotten a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  : "How does anyone know if you've visited a school before? Do you have to ... /22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have ... CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  , a reservoir, a filtering plant? Do you know where your water comes ... A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were ... send me a picture! So while you're doing all of that, let me explain ... a honey mustard chicken sandwich. I think I'll have to do this more

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  —research, TAing, etc.—instead of doing six classes and a dozen activities. I wanted ... day to doing it, and a day to recovering from it, and everything was ... feel ready to do that. So, the walk was a great idea, or maybe the walk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  cohort group and have a conversation. I was really hesitant to do it ... topics. Pushing myself to do this gave me a lot of confidence to reach out ... conversation is less of a distinctive memory if that makes sense. Doing an

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet feeling). Approximately three months ago, I stepped out of a six hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a ... that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  . And not only do we have it, we have a group of super dedicated students ... "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  to MIT as well, as a backup to the courier messing up???" We do require ... regarding "If I go to MIT, will I be able to do extracurriculars AND have a ... an a cappella group (the Logs), spending 15-20 hours a week doing stuff

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  where you think “I would do this thing…if I had time”? I know I have a lot ... what were we to do? Luckily, Amanda noticed that she brought a red ... cause. But, what I do know is some combination of factors lead to a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic ... beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  , sorry, but I have one quick question..How do you get to be a blogger on ... in 10-250 are, indeed, purple). "I'm a HORRIBLE singer!" she protested ... about two weeks like it sometimes always is: time for Q and A! Anonymous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see frosh interact, part of me is a little jealous, because how do they ... " means. you're doing a really good job. these things take time. thank you ... was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  vocal cords do not vibrate when producing it. Here is a diagram that might ... there are some sounds that are not quite possible (try doing a glottal ... text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  ourselves. Shuhan talked about never having the opportunity to do a program ... IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014