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  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... was snark on "omg this sucks" or "it's 2 am and this problem set is ... wasn't just about what I could regurgitate on a test or what I could

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  also on the class list.... awk) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 From: Mitra ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... pages), out on Sept. 6, the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it ... was about 11:59 PM on 07/06/07, because I am a baaad baad procrastinator ... number two-ish was garlic fries. Did you know there are no garlic fries on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  things than simply stalking other prefrosh on facebook or refreshing the ... . So I arrived on campus on Thursday, and I was actually delayed about 6 ... , whom I thought were pretty funny. One was leaving on Friday to go to prom

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  ? Make sure to show up to our annual party at CPW on Friday The 13th ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... thought I'd share it here: I'm so sorry that some of you have been on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts ... undervalue himself based on the value system of those around him. A good

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... Francisco, which was sad because I loved my job. Unfortunately it dawned on me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... project that he'd really like Adam to take on for his master's degree. So ... stranded me on a desert island and forced me to pick two bands to listen to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  handle the foundation before you move on to what you really care about. As ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of ... frightening nightmare last night. Read on if you dare. So as Melis and Bryan ... at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on ... ,000 has a very great effect on our student culture -- it's really possible

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , which, believe me, has a long-term impact on your life. It is much more hands-on than most other universities - you work in labs, build roller ... moving to another room on your hall/entry or within your building... or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... YOU NOT LIKE FAST FOOD!!!??? Ahha love to hear your response on that ... here. MIT's affinity for hands-on approaches to education. Our latin

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... groups, Schrock metathesis, Schrock-type carbene complexes, and so on... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The ... came here, I ended up on 5th East, a place with a decades-old culture ... " that administrators everywhere harp on, and then four years later you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... 4H. Moving on... I mentioned that MATCH has a good retention rate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  roles, gender stereotypes, and sexuality. We will especially focus on ... impact that "Sex and the City" and other media have had on current college ... .017 Urban Space and Society (New) Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on how the spaces of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims ... maybe we were spending a little too much time hyper-focused on the parts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="400"] dig yer own grave on the front page of ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the ... himself. From then on, the spice got logarithmically worse, and I was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025