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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... . This morning, the official MIT Gangnam Style music video was released to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  amazing Alumni Directory (https://alum.mit.edu/as/index.html) to get in ... ://www.nih.gov/) and came across the Research and Training Opportunities page (http://www.training.nih.gov/student/) with links to student programs. After sending in the Summer Internship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  , but the nearly unanimous excitement around campus leads me to dismiss ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... the Friday lab. This meant he personally had to open the class archives

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pretty dramatic. It was made even more dramatic by the fact that it was snowing heavily. Boston's gift to me: the first time I've seen snow on my ... : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of ... simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT’s commitment to diversity, but they cannot tell the stories of the international

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I turned back to the boba. At the bottom of each cup, tapioca pearls clotted ... friend, grabbed two cups sloshing to the brim with milk tea, and left

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song ... should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  the need to warn you: you are going to get hurt.  Nine: Visiting ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing ... so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  like idiots at Beast's persistent attempts to break the codebase by ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... names nontrivially affect the names they'll be known by. Many interns end

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if ... mediocrity school, which was incidentally where I went to high school, by the ... nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024