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• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... so on. There's The Tech for that. But sometimes, the true stories of ... diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... as some incarnation of death (?). I have no idea. But hooray for ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in ... for warmer weather! Even if that's not meant to be, NYC's food scene and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... got into his car. He set his GPS for Framingham, MA, slightly over ... for the existence of God, the evolution of ideas as time bypassed the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... share my personal system for dealing with nerves; I do acknowledge that you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I ... still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into ... through a ceiling panel and hiding up there. Midnight: time for business

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail, Stuntcopter. I think for a time there I thought my dad must play fun games for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -sounding idiom), I no longer have an excuse for putting off this blog entry until T ... ? How do students make time for research during the academic year, or do ... summer, for me to build and test batteries that wouldn't explode or melt or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger-scalding hours in preparation for an all-bacon dinner for 40 people, packed two ... summer that curves just short of preparations for the impending semester

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and ... most of the later rounds cheering for the teams that had shown the ... started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for ... baseball games. (This usually involves mocking the actual announcers for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  academic masochist. Wait, what's that? You like doing all that work for ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  -voiced office secretaries, just change into whatever time works for you or which ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  the pre med office for more info. For my part, I'll say first that MIT ... -- the acceptance rate for MIT kids at the top several medical schools is ... MIT education is a strong positive for a medical school applicant, since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  everyone always come to you for help, expect the best from you, etc ... pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in ... better-known for being good singers/actors/instrumentalists. I was popular

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8 ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track ... room is good for doing work. You can hear a pen drop. And it's pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  Good evening. This is Ruth Miller, field reporter for Sam's blog ... adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... you don't think they'll go, unless you want them to come As for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005