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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Biology here is really a THINKING major, not the typical run-of-the ... works the best for me is, "well, if I can't remember the event, then it must not be important enough in the first place." And thus I've mentally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to climb the mountain that is MIT. There are also those students who ... number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... another place. If it is amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to climb the mountain that is MIT. There are also those students who ... number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... another place. If it is amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  hours ahead and it is not fun, ESPECIALLY since I’ve been trying to sleep ... . Sure, I’m not the most try-hard person I know. But I do definitely have ... , and not infrequently. And this contrast is key. Perfectionism isn’t a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  question: What is liveblogging? The answer: (according to Wikipedia) a ... 't running due to construction on the line. Instead, there is a shuttle service into the city. Perhaps not as romantic as a train, but the retreat must

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  concreteness, here is the course load: 18.02 Vector Calculus. This class is ... this class. It is indisputably the most time consuming, soul draining ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... remember how it's me asking for help. Not the other way around. I don't think ... expert. What I do take pride in, though, is my understanding of the media

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  down the river (which is NOT pleasantly warm at 6:50, let me tell you ... NRAO is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory; they have a student ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  sophomore is different, and not just academically. I didn’t even notice the ... past on the Infinite and call my parents is a tall order to do even in ... disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  (what really is the internet, anyway?). I've spent a large amount of time ... and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other." CMS.362 is a ... until you get out of the building and into the community. The key step is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  think about what you “running” is. Not the unhealthy obsession part, but ... Note: So, you may or may not have noticed that my name is ~different ... right: pain does have utility, just not the type of pain we create for

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... -pat, pit-pat. "Is it raining?" One co-worker rushed to the windows. Then another. Soon, there was a small gathering near the one window not blocked

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it ... Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you ... delete an item in your Public that you do not want there anymore and you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  , was not true. To make matters worse, during the reception afterwards in ... time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I ... On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  receptionists were really nice, the fare was not too much, and we got breakfast ... were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a ... The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  notice is that "the two weeks before finals and graduation" is officially ... climbing wall in Dupont. Despina's pizza is now called Cafe 47. "The Game ... world is of dying fish. Not dead fish, not live fish: dying fish. Flopping

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  the popularity of the show, but the basic principle is the same. You ... the show is so popular, though, you enter your name in a lottery from 5 ... —and geeked out about Wicked all night. Here’s the soundtrack if anyone is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see ... since there is no point of giving any money at all. That the dictators ... . This, in theory, should not affect the students who were giving money

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... ’ll look back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  , Kentucky, Berea is the alma mater of Mitra's Dad (not yet as famous as Sam ... things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... you might imagine, MIT is near the top in terms of total money awarded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006