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• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for ... night was redeemed for me by the appearance of celebrity chef/secret crush ... Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to ... to my e-mail. Refresh. No new e-mails. Snapchat. Front cam. Fuck, is ... ." I'm awkwardly posed next to them, hovering over them by a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  people, joy, and friendship that was required to get there. For me, MIT ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... all the answers. Just go for it.  1) To be a good software engineer, you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  ,[/annotation] I was entranced by the instructions for a simple origami cube laid out ... with modular origami, folding [annotation note="great way to get started ... new hobby, or if you miss one you used to love, or if any of the things

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , I wanted to try a new route for getting there. Instead of walking ... pendants and rings. Through DesignPlus, I also get 24 hour access to its ... pumpkin patch sale to raise money. I was told that the best way to get in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  to "where do you live?" for many of us during those four years would ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  ,[/annotation] so I drag myself out of bed by 7 and get to work. 8:00 AM By 8, I ... new. I take the bus for about twenty minutes, then get off where the ... , then go to take a shower. 5:00 PM As I wait for Amber to get from the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates ... get into MIT. Being deferred means you're going to get another fair ... anyone was deferred as opposed to admitted or denied. Having done this for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say that my name is Dave and I'm the new Communications Manager for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... . Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state ... 't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... math for math's sake, I've found 18.02 has swayed me to the course 18 ... hoped to get a deeper understanding of metals so that we could further

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to ... MUCH TO POST ABOUT. The musical came and went, I registered for The Most ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  current interests are and that there is little room for change. By not ... E, which added to my confusion about the field most likely. For MechE, I ... into it. For Course 6, it was a mixed bag, but one I didn’t want to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam wanted to buy Brain Age for his Nintendo DS. He won; we bought the game ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... 't really even bother to clear her throat for either of her two scenes, so she ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  terrible judgement. For example, I’d get so worried about my work that I ... smarter to sleep and get some efficiency back. I also got so inefficient ... --sometimes, it’s just getting through every week, every day, minute by minute. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal ... i was waiting for company B to get back to me"]didn't really think ... me to get all of these interviews for Company C, I did pretty well on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical ... your time well it could be death by that form of Java too. It lives up to ... community. Good luck to those waiting for their college decisions!

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007