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  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  - I found a new community to live with and still got some stolen moments ... like a new day is coming, and I have reason to be optimistic. We survived. ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  interesting -- if I woke up one day and wanted to start a totally new project ... and got back to campus around 11. It was a nice little night on the town ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  going on, and I’m still trying to get a deep sense of what this semester ... meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and ... .00). We had to make a game of Hangman using Python. Thankfully, my roommate

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... Seattle because I wanted to try something new. I'd heard from many people ... you're on a different planet. The grass goes away, leaving the chewed

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  sounds nice. Part IV: Self-care I go on a walk and listen to the breeze ... at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... essay?!? Oh man, you have to complete it so quickly. You kept putting it

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... discovered a post by an incoming frosh who was temped on my hall and wanted to ... -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  new perspective on what it means to put something down on the page. It ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  my room, and started knocking on doors to meet people. I met a ... that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... early. Then, refer to 1. Don’t apply as a fictional character. You know ... your time to remember all the cool things you did in school. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  couple hours in the dining hall because I want a new space to work. And I ... note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game ... [/annotation] since coming to MIT. A game is incredibly long – I have only played the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... had a $30 payout, I decided to be a high-roller and take a cab to the airport. After a short ride to the airport, I board transcontinental flight

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I ... local television, my dad mentioned the word “fridgey” when referring to a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  to notice. This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my summer, I grew a lot this fall. Or maybe I was finally able to show growth ... trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  , Germany. I'm working on a research project applying machine learning to some ... . I rely a lot on my myriad of notebooks and papers: my planner, that used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  -date on their classmates' developments. This summer, I was elected to a ... real publication sold on newsstands that people actually want to read: Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  animated work a whole new depth and quality, so it was a particularly ... given prior to this (animate with sand, animate a perspective shift, use ... get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  my progress on a day-to-day basis. I was looking at the Big Rectangles ... myself that I was, so I tried to hide it. I would spend hours on a problem ... try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I

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

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  admission to MIT. MIT has its own application – we are not on the Common ... create a separate recommendations account for this, in addition to your My ... be sure to frequently check the email account that you list on your

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  's hard to accept brilliance at face value when, well, sub-A level grades on ... you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... -lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015