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  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  similar to flow. I keep the objective at the back of my mind for a few days ... helps me, at least). 2. Move around. Go for a walk. Dance a little. Get ... very far removed from the circus that was college applications for me and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  my First Year. My First Year Out Of School. I worked part-time for Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  , nothing that could prepare me for MIT physics. There should have been ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was prepared to take either 8.01L or 8.01. I opted for 8.01 because 8.01L

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , what are my plans for summer? I've been spending my days at my awesome ... , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  even though I chuckled at past me for worrying so much over a B ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  LIGO, like at the Yale lab the search for WIMPs (whose facilities we ... way. At first, for me, this did not go very well. The first notebook ... drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  you were at MIT?" I spent some time with both Architecture (Course IV ... Hindi course (though Mandarin is up next for me). hedwig asked, "i was ... information about me and my school and that I was chosen to represent India at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  ’s probably an app for that, but I just wrote it down in the memo pad on my ... was waiting for my plane back to California.   Average amount of ... . Life goal for next semester: bump this average up to 8 hours. Empirical

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  concise and accurate label there could possibly be for the box At an ... staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post. If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  you think you need, usually 2x the amount, because somehow at least for ... [annotation note="Ok usually it's for 20 minutes, but I've become so good at ... solutions for any hints, and then keep at it, and if after 20 minutes I'm not

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  which is normal for the season. Each storm brings at least[annotation note ... It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it ... was that we found out what the final for the class is: DO ANYTHING and make it at least 1 minute (!!!!). This made both of us super exited

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  lawn perfect for napping on, or my friends late at night, but I can enjoy ... myself, or (at the minimum) seeming like a creep watching someone else ... reach of seats by the window. I wrote for a while. I thought of Anis

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... my friends and I started looking for an externship (a short internship ... everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of ... “Study hard” or “Eat your broccoli.” As I prepared to leave home for MIT ... just don’t give a shit.” - Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD CEO/founder I work at

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  at David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. When I saw ... arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... for at least 4 hours and 44 minutes a night and allocate several hours a ... Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  looked at it, paused for a fraction of a second, and said, “Are you sure ... -haired megastar appearing at the MIT museum yesterday with almost as much advance ... images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details ... me blabbering on in plain text for pages. Sorry about that. Something ... through the city at the latest we'd ever been out here - we've been making a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  so t-shirts (though most of them were at least three sizes too big for ... this coming Sunday or Monday. If you have any questions for your host ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010