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• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  time popped the tire on the bicycle i'm borrowing (sorry alyssa ... river played guess-the-summer-camp with all the high school students on ... on netflix and suddenly it's august. i'm tired of macgregor's teeny

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of ... wilson essay on reconstruction while i was in the waiting room (it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  ’s probably an app for that, but I just wrote it down in the memo pad on my ... ; My earliest class was 11am on Mondays, but Tuesdays, Thursdays, and ... first day of classes (September 9) until my last day on campus (December

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  have some additional advice and instructions for deferred students on the

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... working on psets in someone else's room, but by then it was Thursday, so it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  -frosh, at the CPW of 2012. My host was a rower on the men’s lightweight team ... races on the Charles River that weekend, and admired the eight rowers in ... of practice, a bunch of novices crowded around a bench swing on the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay ... catch up on months of missed Reddit, I turned it towards the long queue

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  ’M ON NETFLIX It’s finals week. On Monday I have two exams back-to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result ... transformations on top of this weird spiral?    Much less likely. With enough

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  understanding the concept on the first try. Don’t ask the person sitting next to you to clarify what’s on the board; they’ll ridicule you for poor eye ... and judge all of the stupidity that ends up on your psets. Don’t admit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  actually, whatever the header on decisions.mit.edu displays tomorrow, you ... community, and if you’ve been observant on your college visits (virtual or real), you’ll notice how radically colleges vary. spend some time on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  weren't running regularly due to the 3 ft tall piles of snow on Commonwealth that were taking up 2 car lanes. I dropped my backpack on the stairs ... . Looking back on that day, I don't think it was worth all that anxiety and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  January 1. This means you can click "submit" on your application any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last ... interview report has not yet appeared on your MyMIT Tracking. The deadline for

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to ... bump on a force pad to unlock the gate. Pappalardo has essentially become my second home because as one of the System Integrators on this team

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River ... the first year you're doing it on Kickstarter? Yeah. In the beginning it ... day, he found a toilet on the street a block away from his house. So we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  to focus on symbols when the body wanted only to escape to bed. I began to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my first MIT math exam. On the same day, both my math professors brought up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  stuffed animals on the giant bean bag chair I sleep on each night ... me, we cooked a bunch of food so I wouldn't starve, and we went on an ... inspires me to get my stuff together. I caught up on my work, I eat and sleep

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  June. I’m currently on a one-year Fulbright Scholarship in Germany. After ... Caltech. While at MIT I did research on pulsars, which are violently exotic ... cochlear implants, a biochemist is doing research on multiple sclerosis, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the ... dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014