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• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... surprised where a hallway leads you. You’ll never again get to experience ... particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  , the upcoming experience I hope to get in the spring semester will be ... Chem was on fire"]5.111[/annotation]in ESG because I wanted to get a ... rambling on. You have most likely gotten up to get a snack or been distracted

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  't need to get ready tomorrow morning. So what final details of my freshman ... science league competitions. This was sad, but not too sad. I used to get ... to get the right answer by random chance. As it turns out, I did get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  for her expert navigation and driving skills and getting us to and from New York safely!"]just as fun![/annotation] It was, however, nice to get ... TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth - Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  .110) and Mechanical Engineering (2.772) class. I'm hoping to have time to get involved with some new activities and continue some old ones ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered ... volunteer health workers, they just get sent down to the ICU. After speaking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  facts or to present their methods in increasingly different manners. The ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  known throughout the world as a surefire method to summon missing speakers ... . "These are all different ways of getting ideas from one head to another ... As I mentioned earlier, Neil Gaiman is coming to MIT! The lecture he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing ... been invented over the last 20 years has been invented." (Reminder to ... how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  've personally found myself a lot less inclined to go out and get a quick coffee ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  (especially during CPW) but sometimes it gets ridiculous. When I'm late to class ... start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  top things, because everything i need to do gets done, and i'm no ... the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... :43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... sadly entirely over, at least for now. I might get to help out next year ... program. You get used to the comfortable college “monoculture.” At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert ... ? Hacksaw? Russ will always know where to find it. Everyone's getting a bit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005