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• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  for the long drive. Google Maps said it would take 11.5 hours but, with ... bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a ... requested for sensitive information like my social security number. I even

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  -to-volunteer programs out there (as you will see if you run a Google search for gap year ... my own entry about the same subject for a while now. I have also been follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example ... that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on ... internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... kitchen[/annotation] until 8:50, which is around when i usually clock in for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little ... blog posts, but today, I thought I’d just do what I normally save for ... . Sometimes it turns out ok, I think. I’ve often had too much reverence for The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  save it for finals week / early action decisions pandemonium as reminder ... for post-graduation opportunities. This means talking to the career ... upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point ... events, I was deprived of my laptop for over 3 weeks. How ridiculous were ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... ' better-like. Side note: I googled the advice, thinking there's no way ... got a request for my interview story. There was actually a problem with

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  in mind for this semester. We've been having exec meetings through ... finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind ... ="Information platform for organizations and programs in the MIT community"]MIT Engage

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you ... school. And while the status has its perks, little time is left for you to ... seen stranger. Reconnect with old friends. Approach teachers for small

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all ... incredibly well. The process for each climb was simple: start in the basement ... . Take a look at climbs 9 and 13, for example. For some reason I still don

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  , and a favorite of productivity geeks everywhere.  Just Google it for ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of ... heading home. Protip: at the beginning of a semester, ask upperclassmen for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... science for 30 years. No no. I'm serious. Well, this is it: the last time I ... a vegetarian for a month for no particular reason? Here's a picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  Coast—of course, as was typical for my academically-serious parents, such ... would visit MIT several more times for the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  things.  Useful bit of Google-fu: searching for "title of book filetype ... on homework anymore - psets are essential for learning concepts and ... the more you skip class. You're paying for your education anyway - why

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  particularly good for me, but was definitely more of an exception than a rule ... /territories using their shape and how far off you are geographically (or for a harder ... example from the other day, for Semantle #13 (on 2/11), some of my guesses

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to start is reading the given prompt. This was my prompt for my CMS.616 Games ... original research (for example, using a case study approach where you focus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  downright dangerous, especially for a woman travelling solo. Luckily I didn ... the name, short for 'help exchange'). If the helper is lucky, they ... was hard for me, because I like to shower after I run every day. Also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020