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  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your ... my generational unmooring, I've decided to always look on the bright ... shovel then they are not going to help. (Still working on this one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn ... extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... magazine. Google News is the best.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  -offs. He is a man with fashion sense to rival your own. He gets his work done ... , Chris '06 and Wes '07, allow me to test how obnoxious my flash would be ... Thursday: Medlinks auction So on Thursday, the Medlinks had a dating

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of days, relying on WILG’s resident Course 17s to explain to me the riots/reforms/goings-on ... then tended to be on well-defined routes. To my grandparents in Utah or

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  probably wouldn't list that, personally. How much do you have to study to get really good marks in Physics (Maj.) Depends on how smart you are ... information out there. Narrow your field of major choices down to only subjects

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  't really know how to get here anymore. I tried being a software person at a ... of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the ... a masters and/or PhD and go into industry research. I would get to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... if I am not there to contribute? How can mom and dad help me with my OWN bills, if I cannot contribute to the household income? How can I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  , with a delay really only to get the plane de-iced (nice work Jet ... ’t had much structure to my IAP thus far, mostly just focused on moving, getting settled after a semester abroad, applying to jobs and the like, and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . On we go. Painful and sleep-deprived as it was, I was able to get ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... super convenient for me to maximize my training time, especially on days

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  , or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your ... might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  , please remember to eat your meals and hydrate, regardless of how crazy your life gets and how overwhelming your workload may seem. A well fed and ... journey. This post is scheduled to go up on the day of the 2021 Virtual

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  neutralizing any of the spice, you’re gonna have a hell of a time on the toilet ... , you are to bet your pronouns, or the letters of your name, or both. I ... tried to kick a small target on someone who’s running away from me. By the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  , somebody else paid, and all I had to do was show up at the airport and get on ... opportunity to say that I was unaware that I'd be getting any free stuff on this ... , trying to get the answer. I guess MIT students just think on a different

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull ... is bad when you're ready to miss these two."] small compromise

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to keep your mind as single-pointedly focused on whatever you're trying to ... it. You're giving it chi. We're supposed to focus on what it is that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  leg room; plus, I'll get to sleep in a little later than people on the ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called ... females have pleasant dreams on this vehicle, but I try to imagine that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  to splash those walking besides me). I’m not quite sure how guys do it ... occurrences on campus, so sometimes you just have to tread through them ... is nice to have something that is waterproof on underneath, and when

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010