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  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... describing a current project on the bubonic plague, Prof. McCormick referred to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... 013. Do you get along with your parents? yes 014. Your heritage? i am a mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  alarms of any dorm on the MIT campus. Because just because you go to MIT ... two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close ... needs to evacuate. If something's on fire, cover it or throw it out the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  really means to be here. First, there's CPW, where (if you're like me) you ... brochure or a website (or Google Street View if you're really obsessed ... you're really here, on your own, away from your family. Before long you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at ... have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer ... engineer, you’re often working on one piece of the codebase and don’t have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  in a team with an MIT alum as a mentor to work on our teamwork skills ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and ... to try it again! So next time you're at a barbeque and there

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  wanted to do a presentation on how consciousness relates to theory of ... for the dorm, I'm on call in case of emergency, and I get free housing ... to me on the progress he's making on his game, heh heh), and I am

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends. Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  are two ways to get to New York from Boston, both departing from South ... 't already have high school friend coing to college in NYC, you're bound to ... get there around two hours before the show and drop your name into a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  off. Improve makeup skills - Accomplished! I learned how to put on fake ... work on it. Get a summer 2022 internship. - It would be great to be ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... myself holding back my input on certain issues because I get that Look- why ... battles every single day! Trying to chase your dreams while fighting visible

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on occasion when I get to a story that has special significance to me. I believe

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  copy of the How To GAMIT (How to Get Around MIT) on the first floor of ... from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  get relative to my peers onto whether or not I'm taking full advantage ... 's worth of work into today and tomorrow because I'm going to SXSW on ... start-up. As part of my Course 15 (management) curriculum, I get to take

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  , do you feel better about how to think about your decision? D: I feel ... great head on your shoulders. You’ve already been accepted to a bunch of ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... outlining your plans to our office: Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  until 4 am everyday to work on it. Then, the day before our final was due ... Google Calendar or other similar online planning apps/websites, but we just like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  books and get back to my on-campus family. Update: My flight did not ... ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... if you're ready to accept it as one (cheesy, yes, but also true

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014