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  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  that has nutrition or enrichment like the toys tigers get at the zoo. I ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in ... …"]friends.[/annotation] During lunch, or after school, at Quiz Bowl practice, I'd find those

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

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  for MIT students to perform research at Automobili Lamborghini.) 2 ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... Google Assistant thought I was still home. --- Also, I’ve walked myself to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... ½ inch drill bit in a poker tournament, played ultimate frisbee at midnight ... this up. Oh, yeah: I also started school at the Massachusetts Institute

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil ... pointed at me: "yes! question?" Me: "You talked a lot about how the public ... was, and" - he glanced at me - "let me know if I have this wrong. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... .   It was Friday, October 25th. My family was coming at 10am. I knew ... , so I set my alarm for 8am. I woke up at 11. After throwing everything

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed ... again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... about QuestBridge at MIT and I’ll tell you to talk to the Scholars who are

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  -n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... be in four classrooms at once Monday and Wednesdays from 1-3. he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At ... through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  found my phone number on a listing at some job website. They're informing ... look at my work's flaws and see them for what they are, or at least admit ... my work to my lack of self-esteem, because at least that, I know how to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... known as "the smart one" or "the guy who's good at biology" or whatever ... than yourself at any top university. What tipped the balance towards MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• 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 / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... , Bridger celebrated his arrival at one of the world's most renowned ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... most Summit activities will be at Northeastern University, the Museum of ... it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  acceptable. Don't look at me like that, I know you're one of them ... buildings (I know of at least 3). The Harvard Coop sells Harvard stuff, the ... into the bookstore, getting a refund at the end of the year equal to 7

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  , most econ majors (like most other students at MIT, I believe) choose ... D program at MIT, there are students who studied computer science, physics ... increasingly rare to go directly to business school (at least into an MBA program

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  some repeated pumping noise somehow, and I was only just at that moment aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . Except at MIT, it's a waterfall of knowledge. As I said last entry, I won

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  , following which we will drive around the Columbus area and look at Christmas lights (and point and laugh at blowup Christmas lawn ornaments). It's good ... choosing a major section on their website. Additionally, all of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  start at the beginning. Now that I think about it, the beginning makes a ... : part-time sales associate at Best Buy and part time building manager at a ... at the nursing home, I was pouring a “nice” lady’s coffee when she

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  - Accomplished! This past summer I had the great opportunity to work at Microsoft and I'll be working there next summer as well! Read at least 5 books ... Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021