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  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  that should have been trivial. I found myself frantically googling ... ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  The MIT Spring Term subject listings have been posted to the web ... Manufacturing I Prof. Alex Slocum Develops students' competence and self ... problems. Matt notes: I'm pretty excited about the new major in Biological

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  . Instead, I thought I’d show you guys one of my essays through Google Docs ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... about as I was exactly two years ago? Some of you probably are. Some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  I should be filling out an absurdly long form so that I can get a pre-med advisor, but instead I'll write my entry about Next House! I've lived for two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm slow-cooking ribs at least once a week 2) My Google search history is ... and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015 ... are meant to commemorate attributes from only the class. If you google ... it was seen during the tetris hack last year during CPW! I was in

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... recommendation for college; b) which colleges you're applying to and why. I ... , one in science. If you haven't yet fulfilled these requirements, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions have died down, but I have some last-minute thoughts and advice ... questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I ... decisions. We've had many posts about decisions, but here are some that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  ' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... things.[/annotation] I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... , feature roman domes and greek columns i remember learning about this and being confused - i thought at the time that art was supposed to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... ]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... -system-simulating nerds. I've run into a lot of people, both at and outside of MIT, who say

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... , but sometimes, I feel like responding: Dear MIT, You know how much my graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  I'm building from scratch and learning different web technologies for ... an incredible, incredible year. I learned to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and then proceeded to not move it. Two weeks ago, I walked 21 miles as a sort

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  wondering, however, seeing that I’ve become the Disappearing Blogger I told myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  eavesdrop on a ridiculous conversation you're having with a third party. I'm not just saying this to say it, I'm saying it because I just had a ... , March 31st 6-8pm @ MIT 6:00 Reception 6:30 Presentations. 10 mins per

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  Love. This weekend I was troubled with the terrible dream that Bob Barker had died. I realized that here, since most news outlets talk about David Hasselhoff, I am even more insulated from important world events

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  entire kilometer to help dedicated fans watch World Cup soccer. Now, I was ... planning and public transportation. Ling '07, Bao '07 and I visited two such ... 21 years to make it even better and more efficient. I hope that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006