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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  of a leap as you might imagine). My PhD work combined proteomics with ... engineering with my interests in infectious disease. More specifically, I ... December 30th and got in my first fight with my mom about how I was

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  crumple up the plan and go with something else. But that's improv. Today ... commencement, here's one insight that I would share with past, present, and ... . There was the professor with whom I took a class because it had an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  together with your fellow sophomores on your dorm hall ... of presenters, a freshman volunteer would come on stage with a bag filled with ticket numbers (that matched the ones we were given as we came

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . Sheets, a comforter, and pillows and pillowcases. Your room might come with ... , so you don't need to bring one with you. Other shower-y type items ... transportation is excellent in Boston, but if you know someone in the area with a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  meet you and talk with you and tell you all the things they love about ... acquainted with all we have to offer."]CPW.[/annotation] There is no rush at all to acquire your MIT wings. There's nothing wrong with taking a look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... . I told myself whatever happens I would be there for her with a smile ... ruined such a deep and emotional paragraph with a hashtag. Like mother like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... his involvement with S-Check, an infidelity detection spray that wives

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Admissions people, my classmates are a ridiculously talented bunch with the ... . Everyone is involved with a million activities, which can be frustrating when ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT ... the local area ECs and me. It was a good way for me to talk with our ... with the students: with the web, it is much easier for students to learn

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Porsche. One Luncheon I spoke with a couple of guys who returned to South ... rest, with only a couple of exceptions, tend to fall into two categories ... struggled with classes to the point that the Committee on Academic Performance

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  things as they come to me. :P I graduated with a 4.7 GPA from MIT, or 3.7, if you are more familiar with the 4.0 scale. This GPA was good enough ... smattering of B's along with A's every semester. I completed the requirements

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  with this conversation: A: Why do you want this UROP? B: Because the ... happiness must be "activity in accord with virtue," since virtuous activity is ... identifies as the "activity of the soul in accord with [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  filled the margins with constructive, brutal critique, the kind that leaves ... suddenly complex and problematic. I could no longer walk into a room with the ... , smooth rock wall with no discernible points of purchase and no way over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  . Or, you’re just dealing with a bad depressive episode. The old life ... with admins or student leaders or the House Team at Senior Haus, and I ... designs I could come up with. Anything to keep my mind from focusing on the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  before about how I structure my reading into a block schedule, with intense ... the extra marginal decisions that came with being poor, like needing to ... . After some difficulty with overtraining, I've learned to become better at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , but once upon a time humans did battle with dragons. Right now I ... like ginormous hydrae with flamethrowers. The stick figure warrior ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  , with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to ... pursue the Jargon File or MIT's Acronym Wiki. With that said, enjoy this ... affectionate name for MIT. hosed (adj.) - Flooded with work, as if attempting to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  cringey. The video starts with an admissions officer demanding a video be ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . This resonated with me – from when I first arrived on campus for my FPOP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their ... wrong with that!"]froshy[/annotation]about things. Saturday officially ... Dormitory Council REX chairs, working with the REX chairs from each dorm to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... ’t due to lack of interaction with actual black people. I know for some ... an area with a very large black population. However, for some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019