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  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  on the blogs. This semester I took 3 [annotation note="Humanities, Arts ... ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no finals for these classes. The unfortunate drawback was that I then had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  It's September, school has started, and I know that before long I'll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I'll get ... entirely, I'm taking this time to recap what I did for the past several

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  decisions portal already."  Eminem About 2 separate times last year, I ... -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags ... is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... Room. So there I was, walking down the street, minding my own business, when I saw this mean old biker gang beating up some poor elementary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  low on material right now. [Editor's note: Um, by which he means that I have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  When I was a kid, I always imagined my future as a certain genius ... handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who ... workshop, and, even though I can’t speak for anyone but myself, it felt like ... give you an idea of the things I wrote, here are loose descriptions of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and ... house. Yay Sarah! After stuffing my face, I burned off some small ... : One of the Literature department's concentration advisors I've been a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  tell me about your research? Al: I’m having a blast! My current ... medicine for my taste. There are times when I seem to make no progress and I get jaded out. However, when I actually make significant progress, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the ... the mines content, here's everything I have from then: One week ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  I asked a bunch of people, professors, current and former students ... Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to whether I should pursue a PhD program right after graduation or work in the ... supervisor, past mentors, and other people whose advice I value, I decided to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  let yourself glide cj: okay, like this? almost slips. why do i keep ... . that doesn't help wayne: i mean it's easier if you go faster, it's like riding a bike cj: i hate riding bikes wayne: … cj: no i mean i like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is ... compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... tomorrow morning?" I told him I had to teach recitation, so I wouldn't be ... was going to be invited with a press pass, but if I couldn't make it, he

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had actually been since I swam. This pool wasn’t like the neighborhood pool where I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially since I’ve become a real-life potato since quarantine started and things ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  now, was forever ago. i was standing on the harvard bridge staring into a summer sunset, as it filled the sky with orange and blue, as i held ... were on, but i heard and i felt the wind blowing from behind me, as if it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  , clubs and UROPs are underway, and the realization that I have officially begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... , here is my schedule: (NO 9 A.M. CLASSES HEHE) Every weekday, I start

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017