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  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... taking the exam at 1pm. I went through all the problems, thinking hard ... ever had before" and "still failing". At least I did better than on my 14

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  stare at all the flakes falling from the sky, and it will feel like magic ... in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... --the bottom line is, soon you will be leaving home. At the very least, you will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on ... brilliant. Some of these Dreamers are students at MIT. Recently they ... together the school’s undocumented students as they face unique challenges at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  Guten Tag from Deutschland! I’m writing this from my dorm room at the ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at Caltech. While at MIT I did research on pulsars, which are violently exotic

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

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... unremarkable day. It’s the middle of the school week. Adults are adrift at work. And this past Wednesday should have been no different. I spent it at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from ... called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the ... at MIT, 2.006 or Thermal Fluids II (think turbines, compressors, and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  food at home, I turn into this hyperactive raging rhino. I check the ... . I still cringed at Mufasa’s death, and by the end of the second volume ... melancholy thoughts Lion King sometimes inspires. At the time, just about three

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  my computer, took one look at my Desktop background, and screamed "WHAT ... a July 4 party at my house, and all the other summer students came ... that I have during the school year. Here at the NRAO in Charlottesville

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... hopefully more funny than unhappy. Here it is: At a pit stop, the lady who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks ... thought I'd been there all along, working at this godforsaken JOB!" The ... !" , and piggybacks out at a sprint. "Order up for Tasha?" calls an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree: everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as ... important things I've learned so far at MIT isn't related to genetic

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  downright dreary, we feel right at home. In eleven days, we will be home. I ... breakfast, made an attempt at making my bed, and I might even go to the gym ... science at math is flimsy at best. I slept eight or nine hours a night in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  give to her. It sounded fairly interesting at the time though (I paid ... original as he claimed! We finally arrived in New York; where we stayed at a ... designer Phillip Starck: The next morning we had a lovely brunch at

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had ... looked down at my rollerblades. “Not with those you can’t.” I pulled off my skates, dropped my bookbag at my feet, and opened my laptop. Luckily my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new ... , the two of us ended up at MIT Medical the next day, where I had a super ... at MIT", and had a nice bonding experience with Juan :) Negatives

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when she collaborated with Sally Susnowitz, Assistant Dean and Director at ... societies at MIT to serve the community at large. "Kristi, Sally and I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  at least mildly entertaining. I definitely needed a few laughs this ... -matched with this Sunday at a short training session, and in just a week, we ... dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  department, has its own fMRI machine, and at MIT, there always needs to be at ... at MIT.But here's a fun fact: both my roommate and I are performing ... win any prize at all, I still won't be the first (prospective) doctor to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ! ================================================= It could have been any number of early mornings my freshman year at MIT. There I was, slaving over a 18.02 or 8.012 pset at 3AM, being really no ... sentiment echoed many times during my years at MIT from anyone from second

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011