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• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... another potluck last Saturday and Ling '07 decided to bring the American

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  first sentence coming true, and the last one still more or less applies ... that any of them had ever been read, and kind of arbitrarily gave them ... rediscovered all of them in my closet. So, here goes. I wrote this first one in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  night, there was a lot that happened. I had the first panic attack of my ... the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... a clumsy giraffe among the rest of the herd. Every ounce of self

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  the goal. If taking 66 units of classes and sleeping every night was ... the power of hundreds of strangers potentially reading this and placing ... minutes before my first lecture of the day. This gave me the minimum amount

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  -3 weeks at a time, and the library has so many copies of the more popular ... during the month of July—starting 7 books and listening for 107 hours.  The ... to them a lot during the hectic, unfamiliar first few weeks at MIT, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of ... the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and ... undergraduate residential halls"]New House,[/annotation] the first night of WISE

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  the mysterious mint square hack) And of course one could not to go CPW ... ) and took a tour of the place. Unfortunately, their smoothies weren’ ... wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  broaden out in graduate school. Here's the first slide of my class: And ... scheme of things. We started in the modern era of astronomy, and I ... returned to exoplanet science. I talked about the first discovery of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  MIT. ** If you are bored and want to demystify the first sentence of ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... psetting, scribbling out mistakes, and trying to untangle the parts of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  . '17, is inspired by the armor of ancient China, and incites discussion ... products such as cheap jewelry, and the true value of these products when ... . Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing all of the ... as soon as possible after the completion of your first semester. If you ... MIT. Additional forms, including teacher recommendation forms and the Secondary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu ... the not-too-distant future, although it will take a lot of planning and ... Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and ... work and instead read an essay about fencing and the teaching of Toni ... can take the form of a sequence of disconnected word sketches.” And

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  off campus and enjoy the fall foliage and change of scenery. Saturday ... took it slow, taking time to rest up, take care of my body and mind, go ... System, clear my inboxes, and check off things urgent on my todo list. Of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The ... .035-Mechanics of Structures and Soils This is the core of the junior fall Course ... the ~18 of us are generally very on top of things and very inquisitive

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... know each other, our team leader and I met up over coffee. Or rather, the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message ... presented to the professors and panel of jurors at the final review??? Panic ... wheel. Sometimes, unimaginable 'end-of-the-worlds' might spring up and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... felt relieved, though, to have gotten through the first segment of the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... [annotation note="The instructors were aware of this and did attempt to mitigate

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021