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  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  publication-quality data by Christmas so we can hopefully get published by the ... reminded him nicely yesterday to GET IT DONE). Now there's nothing to do but ... Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  mailer!   Ready to be sent off We are hoping that by making voter ... Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  heated. I just want to start off by saying that there's no reason to bash ... , precisely as Snively said, if you did Rush "right" (by constantly going to all ... years by which dinners you chose to go to during Rush week? And, like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  our country to adjust if many current jobs were eliminated by automation ... any true ownership over a project. My dream job is one where I get to do ... to enjoy this one life to the fullest, to be surrounded by people I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... . I transfect the cells, which means that I get them to take up a

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

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... the restaurant, so I had to get even closer to my audience to retrieve ... . Get a picture with Tim the Beaver. I have yet to get a picture with Tim

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  serenade you with the song of flight. Have to wait a bit to get off of ... . You're right over the wing and get to witness the beauty of flight. Usually I'd mention how you have to wait to get off the plane but this seat

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... school, you think "I just need to get into [top college]. Once I get into ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  , though, because I'm not really getting to the heart of the issue. Spaghetti ... than for students who choose not to interview. Also, get started on ... head that it must have been easier to get into MIT when I was applying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... after researching for weeks and giving up my entire Saturday to get whooped in rounds by some pretentious kid in a suit, I didn’t want to ever

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA, but I was LITERALLY allergic to the air pollution and could not get very ... , which I'm pretty proud of! I'm trying to increase my amount by about a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  curve. This curve will be what Gabe uses to decide whether he should get ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  you get when you cross the Flintstones with Public Transportation ... another hint. Typically on my commute to work, I read the Boston Metro. It ... restauarant Mitra introduced me to. There, they'd be talking about the new

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... about their own approach to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one ... to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. One tip

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  summer. I wanted to spend time with my family, and I needed to get off ... chances of finding a job were pretty dismal, so I tried to compensate by ... . People are lining up in Lobby 10 to collect their booklets and nametags

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  in your mouth and start to screw with your teeth so you have to get ... hard to get into M.I.T. Yes. pennutty said: Hi, Iam a 11th class student ... sweet (like Mac! How awesome would it be for Mac to get a cute, sweet guy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] MIT can be a very tiring place. MIT IS a very tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  ever get into MIT. As we were gossiping about people with whom we went to ... , by the end of 2006 I think the answer to that question will be quite ... disciplines, you need a master's to get competitive engineering jobs. You wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... 2010s cypherpunk movement, learning to program by contributing open ... over. Fast-forward to August. We traveled to China and stopped by the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and tasty quesadillas at Jose's Mexican Restaurant to $4 pad thai at Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010