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  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is ... of you still working on your final decision about where to enroll next ... the tenth or eleventh week of each academic term...which, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  my norm. From the hackers of East Campus to the frat brothers on the ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  Nicole R. asked: "What have been some of your favorite classes at MIT ... ?" Good question! First part first. Some of my favorite classes at MIT, from a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... season of Halloween—the tourist baits? On the way back on the purple

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  temporary tune out of the nerd talk going on around me. But there are moments ... everywhere on campus. It was one of the reasons I applied. I still remember ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees ... one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  thought as tightly as I can." Kim D: "I'm on the 6th draft of my MEng ... all night on this sort of thing because I won't have any finals this ... . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition test, in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... 9.15 (Biochemistry/Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission), a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way ... One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  die instantly. So, it's better to err on the side of caution here. And ... the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to ... the largest labs on campus, encompassing various fields of research from ... protocol or to finish a test we're working on, I can think of no better way

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  out of the way without your 'bad' grades showing up on your transcript ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  recognize that my smile is independent of my bank account or the label on my ... . Although I am determined not to write much on the subject of MIT’s difficulty ... , occasionally, on NPR blaring through a $6 radio. At MIT, the pace of life is much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... : while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020