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  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... with a dean at S3 (they are wonderfully nice people. they will give you ... . Then, when you're ready to come back, you email your dean at S3 and your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... schedule kicked in. I had decided at one point that it was a brilliant idea ... please walk at a reasonable pace through the Infinite). The Bush Room was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... again, or at least for a very very very long time. Also, now I'm terrified

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... triangulated the planetary and stellar positions at the same time as Person ... to discover Pluto's atmosphere as an undergrad at Harvard. Her MIT team

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high ... “[redacted] PSET”. Q: How will you capitalize the word at the beginning of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the ... safely look at the Sun, weather permitting. You can also hang out with MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  you're stuck in your bubble at home or at MIT. I hope everyone is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  have some coffee and chat about life with them.  :) We chose to meet at ... let's be honest, this happened Saturday morning at a more human hour (10 ... essay for a Russian class she's taking at Harvard. And I have to get to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  always has been) where I reside at MIT and where I spend most of my time of ... around 4:30pm on the Friday and stopped at Subway and Market Basket on the ... campsite for a half hour, we finally settled at the fire pit by the cabin and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  (they called her Brittany at the shelter), but I really like Arya, like in ... 'm back at MIT, and there is a new little kitten hopping about. Everything

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my ... friendly, even the buses smile at you.      Seattle graffitti is just as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  close. Boxes will be packed, old psets that I will probably never look at ... dessert 2 meticulously designed photo collages (Alana ’16 is a wizard at ... when I was 8 years old at my local community park, the majority of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that ... New Hampshire with MIT Outing Club, listened to bluegrass at the Fresh ... Ellermeier, '14 and Christopher Sarabalis, '14 at FreshGrass   Fresh

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  backseat of a lesser sized yellow overpriced mini beast until I arrived at MIT.  I checked into my room at Simmons, got my MIT ID from the Student ... after saying week so many times.)   Truth is…being at MIT isn’t all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how ... classes at MIT, or anything else

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we ... stuff off at Random and left and finally I was alone with my boxes and my ... year’s Mystery Hunt set at least two records: it was the longest hunt, at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I ... I happened to find myself looking at - OH, WAIT! He just brought up ...  flickered back on, and I happened to find myself looking down the lecture hall at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  .03 (Genetics), UROP, Japanese V, MITWE, Marching Band, sometimes flail at the ... may be sleeping) Sunday: UROP, Meetings at The Tech, house meeting at my ... during the day. However, psetting at night is becoming incredibly

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at running experiments or doing work, you're also good at expressing the ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  until I found myself sorting laundry at 4 in the morning in the basement of my dorm, Baker House. 4) while working a shift at Baker desk and I ... sit at my desk and not bother anyone while doing homework. One day, our

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012