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  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  ago. People born on 18 August 2008 are walking and talking all over the ... possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer. Feeling old also got me reflecting on those 19 Junes, Julys, and Augusts*. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... assignments, you can filter and sort the table and view it in multiple of ways

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The ... -American teenagers in Lowell, Massachusetts (about 30 miles north of Boston, it's home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I ... ; I needed places and people I could call home. I needed to learn the ... lightness lifting the hairs of my back, intensifying the more I walked, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  control over their organization and also don't have any pictures of them ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... record of things so you can look back on it. Also...can we talk about the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student ... future blog) and are where a significant portion of learning happens at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may ... bunch of people have gone through and assigned traits to tons of songs, so ... /revenue reasons (e.g., you can only skip a certain number of songs per hour, and you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  weeknight, and by 11 or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. This is painfully ... , [/annotation] and cleaning my room right after buying groceries on Sunday. In ... run out of clothes, and doing it weekly is actually much less stressful

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  's presentations on Nikola Tesla and Deception, which are stunning and well worth ... on Thursday I had an exam in 8.02 (Physics II E&M), and I woke up ... of 6.01 work and to enjoy the beautiful weather with an excursion into

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  't matter -- hours of frustratingly fun debugging later, we hopped on and ... CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on ... , and a completed satellite was worth more than the sum of its parts. The ... teams (team 2 could only trade with teams 1 and 3, for example). On

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  of homesickness and great reluctance to change. But time moved on ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... front of my ancient laptop narrowing down my list of unwatched movies and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  decent chatter, where we talk about exams and home and the meaning of life ... settle on the sole hallmark and signifier of America’s achievements ... to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  lonely on my mile-long walks home across the base and always stop to check ... 've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my ... .   The cool water tower and some pictures of airplanes. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  by any means, but if there was list of everything that goes into making ... out of the college experience, and not every environment is conducive to ... problem comes when students start to put the burden of “fit” too heavily on

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  complexity of patterns and the neck-breaking speed that some people crocheted ... percentage of people in the lab that don't drive, including my supervisors, and ... friends with my borrowed crochet hooks and my first few balls of yarn, and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  running and running, eyes set on the shining lighthouse that was MIT, and I ... put on. But every flight home was a stutter in the movie, a break in the ... cursing the very ground you stand on, you pick yourself up. And you dismiss

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  whenever I can, and when lab is closed I work on my other classes. Of course ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  ; and the second, a class on musicals, did not have a quality of ... were weeks where I was working twenty hours on top of classes and ... Con Vice President, a job involving lots of organizing and working with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022