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  A week of work

  

  throughout the week than have all of them due on the same day. One of my major extracurricular activities was my part of the UA Committee on Orientation's report on Orientation 2006 and the state of Orientation. More on that in a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  this plan, because I thought that regardless of how we do on exam 3, exam ... badly on the third exam, in which case, our fate of passing or failing ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  instead of trying to put it into our lab on the 7th floor. [caption id ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from ... over a longer period of time. Instead, I tend to lean on a series of ... , so I catch the sunset on my way out. Some of the sunsets have been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  student, I wanted to show my perspective on the fluidity of interests and ... of this college interest roadmap. Featuring way too much time spent on ... . Comparative Media Studies Based on my current state of mind, this feels like a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  hours with a bunch of people on hall unlocking a mysterious fancy lock ... first part of about 6 different practice problems and gave up on finishing ... on the third floor of Walker Memorial and cry internally for 50 minutes

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  on hall who get injured and have better judgement of when people need ... our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  beautiful. The gestalt effect of all the murals painted on a hall or floor, or ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I ... couple. :) Nicole R. asked: "Do most of the dorms have bunk beds or two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Harvard and MIT have organized a panel discussion on Pakistan ... Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong ... . This event is especially important in light of Benazir Bhutto

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and ... of fish on top) and ever since I discovered this in Japan a few years ... 're basically like a standard scheduler, although instead of having one day on one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  article useful to all of you as you embark on college apps/scholarship apps ... matter how well-prepared they think they are. And of course the new grad ... personally; (4) able to take on the challenges of grad school; (5) able to have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  you don't. Recently, I'm dealing with a new kind of synthesis problem ... millions of things on my to-do list. I wanted to feel whole again. And so I ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to ... beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday.  If you ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  opened my eyes to this exciting new form of history, which I've never ... going on and under her exhortation of "you know, you should really just do ... streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories ... , i would simply move onto my friends of friends, and so on. there is no ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because ... list of all the stuff. We figured that some of ya'll might find this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018