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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  probably never happen. Even more unfortunately, I am a ridiculously heavy ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... .) I've been taking the 8-9AM hour at desk every weekday morning for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with Theory. It wasn't a bad class, all told. Circuits are pretty cool, and I ... .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  Hey, remember that job I got six months ago? I start this week! (I got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new group called "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," which I found ... better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... . On the lab front, this week I started writing a paper about the project I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so confused about the name of 14.41. I have heard it at different times called

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... disappointed by the Artemis Fowl movie [annotation note="still mad about this. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are the classes I took the previous three semesters, complete with a color

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  things that I had done for the last time that I hadn't realized. My last ... that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time that I saw some people, whether I realized it or not. I'm very attached

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the table?   Enter August 2016, Boston, Massachusetts. I take a taxi

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of Chicago, you see, and I was still wearing my uniform--polo shirt and plaid kilt--as I danced/ran/frolicked/squawked various versions of the word

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso, TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso and boy are my arms tired." (rim shot) But seriously, I have been on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in with Janet '27, Allison '27, Ellie '28, and Sara '28! I won by hitting 500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  i spent spring break writing. writing blog posts, writing things for our informatics olympiad, writing emails for the puzzle club. the time i didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this post up by tonight, and though i just started writing this post i'm confident that it'll work. i'm only taking three classes this semester. three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a QuestBridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also terrified. I worried that I wouldn't get into any school. I spent that week

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023