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  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  (a well-balanced diet if you know where to look). I used the money that ... to San Francisco during spring break. It was my first time on the West ... transfer papers each time. Within the past year, it got a lot harder to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But ... and wondering when exactly it was the last time you got to go outside ... -rotor helicopter that can be used for search-and-rescue missions, and maybe someday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... was applying, I realized that talking to another person - whether it's a ... , fervor, a fire in the belly, whatever you want to call it - is still really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... /website/blogs. I really feel that MIT cares about its prefrosh and wants to help as ... where I fit in. It was a great feeling to eat breakfast before leaving on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone ... fatigue in my legs. YOU CAN DO IT, I screamed to myself (in my head, not out ... was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I ... the problems, quickly growing frustrated at the fact that none of it ... good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  I didn’t know how to feel about it. I think I never truly realized ... understood eigenvalues, or the time we made it to the third round of NCAAs with ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  , sometimes you can do it for free. Then I took the nopal to the Hobby Shop. I ... metal during this process -- namely that it can be quite annoying to work ... made it difficult to solidify any part of the project.  I didn’t want

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... thing. I knew exactly what it was, but others may not, so allow me to explain. A third set features new to the 3DS are its augmented reality (AR

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration – Important! If you're planning to attend CPW, please read this entry whether you've already registered or…

  

  MIT account, you can call the CPW hotline (617.258.6085) to register via ... to a few students who didn't register using one of the recommended ... Howdy folks, Some quick messages from CPW HQ! If you haven't yet

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... aggressive illness because it's not bad enough that you have reason to complain but it is enough to make you dysfunctional. And as I much as I hate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  "]A[/annotation] few days ago, my Google Calendar returned to its pre-exile state, aka ... you use it. Try. I like back-to-back meetings, even if I try to ... intended double major + minor later. 3:30-4 A break that I used to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  quickly, but I'm still not used to eating my largest meal at 2 PM! (Spanish ... sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they ... outside my apartment at 2 AM than 2 PM, so it's pretty cool place to live

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  reason, we can refrigerate it, but otherwise we can just keep them in a ... would it take for the egg to hatch?" or "how do you know there's no baby ... have to see my parents. Even though it's been rough moving back home and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... 'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word ... a subconscious level. The trick is this- we use "going to" as an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  quickly and accurately as possible. Please be patient. It's the same story ... to process all of your documents so that we can begin to read your ... Mystery Hunt is almost here! (Bryan is pretty excited about it, too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  ! And if you can't make it to Splash or Spark, neither as a participant ... students to learn from MIT student and alumni volunteers, and Spark is its ... today! Kinect Interactive Simulation - Try it! Although I wasn't able to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  . Well, we finished the something awesome months ago, but we wanted to keep it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to maybe 20-25% of the students in each year. But it's big enough that ... to list any scholastic distinctions won since entering high school.Can ... . Really. Which brings me to my main point: You hear it a lot. Do what you

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

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to manage my time. It takes over 20 hours a week and you can only do ... at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024