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  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... a little more comfortably, but after seeing the rent on my apartment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  pass along some advice. Pardon the occasional bitterness. Learn Roman ... ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  this, both the regular commenters and the lurkers. I worry that the ... that had a philosophical twist. The problem was that once these entries were written, I couldn't keep writing about the same topics over and over

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the Boston Public Gardens. There's more to see when there's not snow on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  The field hockey team is doing awesome this year, (The Tech even ... spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and ... '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about the PE requirement here. If you're a varsity athlete, earning your 8

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  earth. I’d laugh if someone told me this is the power they’d want. He ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... for my Lyft in the frigid parking lot of Boston Logan airport, my friend

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to be calling. At the time, I was feeling incredibly stressed and lost in ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where love was the twisting in my chest I felt when he looked at another person ... school, I felt like I had found the one. I dreamed of exchanging vows on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... 're ahead, you're suddenly behind. I know I could just finish the psets

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without ... .... ...and she has become intimately familiar with the different stresses ... I from preschool all the way through AP Physics C in high school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  't halt for us either, and all the hosts are regular MIT undergraduate ... . Second, be on the lookout in your email for more specific information later today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push, clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  exam, or the occasional deep, probing conversation about life, the ... awake with whom to have a deep, probing conversation about life, the ... there is indeed something else keeping me up: Tonight is the last night

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most ... directly into other people’s heads (pay close attention to my use of the word ... this video that I made with the help of another class of 2019 (Thank You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015