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  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  's presentation. They asked me to tag along as an example of somebody who's not only ... that comfy, but that's of no concern to CAPTAIN FAFSA! He's too good for ... something important to say at the end of this entry. Here's a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... of things we’d like to see happen in “our” ELL: bigger groups, greater

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  forced myself to forget to relieve some of the trauma. Rather than keeping ... , breaking sensations that tickled the back of my brain. I didn't want to cry ... , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup ... front wheel of any bike with theirs to turn your bike into an electric ... get ok's from each of my professors for me to miss the last week of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... ; everything you need, and lots of things you don’t know how to use. The place ... old. So much thought goes into the process of any project: where to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  to start looking for opportunities outside of the lab. It was ... , and now I was forcing myself to chart a new course. Interestingly, I ... Career Fairs. Out of hundreds of tables, I had time to meet with three

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... means people are forced to "crowd" a room by turning a double into a ... of their time to repaint the room for the next year. Other than that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  forced me to take stock of what relationships I’ve been able to form in ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest ... , he says, is no less than to reveal the molecular basis of human disease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which ... going to run a Python spelling bee, one of EC's traditional bad ideas ... , ADT performs. It ends. I run to the sixth floor of Building 24, where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  panic set in. You're going to get nightmares of every tiny mistake you ... applying to something as competitive as MIT. I entered a period of heavy self ... wouldn't be able to survive and that my insecurities would force me to go

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those ... proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty ... . I was startled to see one of the graduate students in my group there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can ... of Project Runway at Television Without Pity to keep myself up to date ... clothing. Nina asks to see the back of the dress, and, after fighting with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  eighteen, but really more of a prelude to twenty. A pause and a period of ... consider who I am and who I want to become. I think getting to MIT forces ... can’t really think of anything concrete. I want to figure out who I want

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your ... to remind you that things would be okay. there's a small niche of ... that brings something to you. It's true that giving can be a part of love

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... land. (Admittedly, it looked kind of silly but was important to learn ... fallen men and women of the armed forces. Moreover, the MIT Boathouse (and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of ... force a particular card to stick in our minds while rifling through a ... of 6.01 work and to enjoy the beautiful weather with an excursion into

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much ... -owning Canadian grandma I've ever met on this side of the Mississippi), a trip to ... the torturous course of the Week from Heck (am I allowed to say this on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  clear that about half of us would be cut from roster. I was NOT going to ... want to be a 21W minor, if not a major. SO I spent the rest of that day ... of lecture a week compared to five hours of lab time. We get to play

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020