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• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  station was three miles away. Also, if I'm too cheap to get a data plan, by ... . I actually just got out of a thermo test, and now I get to ponder ... funny thing was that after almost getting to my gate, right before

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  turned to my friend Google. I found: A nice video story about Fleisig and ... charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  thought for a while about if I wanted to attend. Pro: get to meet Randall ... knew that I wasn’t only going to get his signature: I was going to get ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  expectation, waiting to see and be seen by somene. This expectation weighs on ... , de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise. How is it that I get to live every ... this world? That I get to think about the unbelievable beauty day after

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... lot of writing, rewriting, deleting, and revising to get me to a point

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World ... ."]insane Google calendar starting to fill.[/annotation] The scene transitions to ... get the point. I am excited to keep doing things, both in math and in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  afternoon. The plan was pretty sound – my flight was supposed to get into Berlin around 11 PM, leaving me plenty of time to get home and get almost a ... , and went to get a coffee from the cafe near my gate. This gave me an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  checkpoint to get home when we have the modern tech known as RFID cards and ... is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many ... group art or construction projects, or to get money, support, and feedback

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box ... , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  said that it’s not used for anything and it’s just too big to get out of ... ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  extremely trivial amount to pay for a doctor's visit and getting two week ... patient waited nearly 18 months to get a routine colonoscopy since the only ... sent one of their interpreters with her, and she was finally able to get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  to investment bankers to recruiters. It is kind of cool because I get ... will also test to see if presupposition - the use of a definite article ... A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people ... get the cart up into the office, and I reckoned it'd be best to avoid ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  (although I did get around to reading some other books). And since I've been ... rooms! Walk around enough to get around without a map I have been to ... a club that you sink a lot of time into freshman year to get good, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  addiction and so continued to lurk from time to time to get my fix. Some of my ... by deciding to go to a relatively small liberal-arts school because the ... seem like I executed this straight-line multi-year master plan to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  know that a chapter of Blue Mars awaits, and that you get to spend half ... MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  , we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life ... and to hopefully (crossing our fingers and toes) get them too.  So ... spent a lot of time troubleshooting and trying to get the HTC Vive they

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... are just as likely to get into a rain bin as the water—the larger the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016