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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never ... . We cleared the coffee table so we could dance on it, jumping from couch ... again—on walks to and from work, at my desk while writing, and lying in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... almost every week for the past 6 years. Mostly at the Z on campus; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... strengths while completing applications, but also rely on your community. This

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  between my study habits then and now: I didn’t study on my bed or got swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... . I didn’t procrastacook. I made all my food on sunday and have just

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  read it along with all my classmates’ posts on our class blog here. This ... you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... the literature on “Ku80 related NHEJ-repair in CHO cells,” which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... on it. Sometimes may have been this whole weekend. Are we good ... just carry on and pretend like this never happened? Meet you outside by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  Sylvester—the hilarious, no-nonsense coach on Glee. She was mere feet away ... Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to ... restructured itself on a fast, personal and somewhat upsetting level. I had to go

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and ... studying abroad, I thought I should do a little reflection on my experience ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  . Upon killing, one absorbs their victim's victim, and so on until one ... encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... before my first semester was over, I settled on course 9, brain and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  hometown city appears on road signs after a long drive – so close, but so far ... myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic ... counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ? Dumbledore: Hmm...well, actually, hang on. *pulls out old tattered book from ... stood slack-jawed with my new book as it dawned on me where I had seen the ... Shakespeare. I picked the envelope off the ground, and re-read the name on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... , most questions focus on designing experiments, or research- or industry ... that there is very little of a safety net. On a standard multiple choice

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  from all the times I fell on my poor, poor bottom, and I'm pretty sure ... back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... lab this summer, and I'm working on neural development in mice -- one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to ... ’d with the MIT Space Systems Laboratory working on the Zero Robotics ... program fake robots in a simulator…with the final competition being run on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  -written journal. When I was 16 years old, I wrote daily “diary” entries on my phone ... to scribble here and there on my tumblr blog. But again, it was only ... ” means. The other three iterations of this draft touched on all those

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... 's research on playing creativity games with robots, and she's written a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... tried my best Kari Byron = “Cheesiness on the pun scale” Tory Belleci ... of potential awesomeness” Francis Lawrence = "the amount of sweat on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017