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Blog / Academics & Research
I failed an exam last week and it will be okay
walk out of the exam room and aimlessly wander around campus for a while ... the class assuming a 0 on this exam, and I might. I make a small list of ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue -
Blog / MIT Life
Finally, a free minute
everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as ... Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.
to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the various buildings that make up the campus. There's been a long history of ... the tunnels to either test my sense of direction or shy away from the -
Blog / Events
A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm
I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my ... Theory, or How I Learned to Stop Losing and Love Math -The Cities of ... eventually) out of bed and into the shower. I spread some brie on bread, took -
Blog / Uncategorized
Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet
the odometer, finally showing its age, and throwing some bugs that are ... + 1 blog posts, and avoid throwing our laptops collectively into the ... and therefore the best idea. Join the bloggers in the comments below -
Blog / Challenges
speculation also a post about touching grass
factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger ... theorizing will be wildly inaccurate and the only way to really understand your -
Blog / Personal Travel
I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.
, lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of ... in the sky, and the sun is tanning the left side of my face. My laptop ... -long nap I took at the beginning of my flight, and to the various panic -
Blog / Admissions
BoA & Restricting
! The Daily Show is now on, and Jon Stewart is making fun of Ashlee ... 's drummer is the brother of my friend Eric (who also holds a Bachelor's and ... ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations
communicate and work with other people who aren’t of the same background ... ’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... computer managing the news department of The Tech like I normally do as well -
Blog / How to MIT
Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage
be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of ... take a look at some of the artwork on display and be inspired or travel ... myself from being such a mom and work on leaving the room. But I actually -
Blog / How to Human
Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans
children and trick-or-treaters could run amok between the houses. Instead of the usual business of walking up long driveways and knocking on doors ... enormous bowls of candy, ready to greet costumed individuals and pass out the -
Blog / Events
Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good
water war (in the middle of the snow), and a Nutella eating contest. Only ... minutes late and they'd already gotten rid of some of the containers, I ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a -
Blog / IAP
Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.
things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... seminars on Special Relativity, Gyroscopes, and the Physics of Flight -
Blog / Events
Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…
early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun part of the week. "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd..." MIT Musical ... where most of the action took place. Surgeon General's Warning: This -
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Blog / Miscellaneous
Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.
the top 5 songs and/or top 5 CD's of all time. (You can mix and match ... into holiday mode and I believe that you need to do the same. As I read your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and -
Blog / Events
It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity
...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT ... available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that -
Blog / Admissions
Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!
" and "easy easy" instead of the solution Audrey: ok i'm going to ... together a musical moodboard in the form of a spotify playlist Audrey: and ... hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the -
Blog / Admissions
Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.
the kitchen, where there is food and lots of awesome astronomers ... High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of
