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  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  need to find a way to understand. Freshman Taylor did not get this at ... to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... , “What can I do today to get just a little better today than I was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by ... couldn’t meet her, or get her to sign the two books that I brought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to ... to explore leadership (FLP!, Leadershape, and iHouse! =p). By teaching

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019: Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  measure the accuracy of the midpoint measurement by comparing it to existing ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... is going to look like until you get it developed, and you can't just go ... ="48932" /] Postcards and snail mail. It feels nice to get a postcard in the mail, so I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to ... get in touch with them, as it may take them several days to respond to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... seemed to come from the cultural difference. I was trying to get used to ... people impacted me, these people I was getting to know beyond layers of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  tank. It got infested with fruit flies, and we had to get it fumigated ... Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students) to borrow ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  talk to one another via chemical signals. One neuron gets excited, and ... molecule tag to other proteins, causing them to be degraded by the cell). So ... you get your bachelor's degree, are you required to get you master's and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my ... '07 all came by to ask for my signature on their nomination forms. (They

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... get taken. the third row goes from just me, to another person near the ... ever get to do these? would anyone ever do this for me? five three years

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  tend to be less undergraduate-heavy, populated primarily by researchers ... fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to ... ="600"] they had some actual Commodore 64 computers there!!! I need to get

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  students, by the way), so hopefully you can get another entry to this effect ... more than a bachelor's degree to get a chemistry- or biology ... are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  process is that we don’t as admissions officers get to meet each of you personally but instead only get to know you by what you and others write about ... Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  to illustrate our culture is by what we do, so here's a glimpse of just ... ;feature=youtu.be Freshman DTYD Hacks: Each year, freshman class gets to promote the party with ... meeting to decide shirt names, and it’s a lot of fun since you get to learn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ribs. We were stuffed by the time we got to rib #7. After dumping my ... Spinning Arts exec meeting at 5pm, [annotation note="time for people to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022