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  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  then you immediately start running through your memory in order to ... exponentially. In just a week or so of classes I feel I have come to understand ... only a week at MIT I have already come to fall in love with every part of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... -romantic relationships as well) fast-forward to a few weeks ago when, in several ... insecurities happens to be loneliness, other people get ensnared in emotionally

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to ... call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... blog seems to really resonate with many in cyberspace. It is hard to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... Educational Counselor (EC). The interview itself is usually conducted in your home town – or someplace close – in an informal setting like a coffee

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... waited in a long line to walk through metal detectors. The nice view of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... Headquarters/check-in. It's a good place to relax, and to meet other parents. It ... Registration who aren't used to driving in Boston (or a similar city, like San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  other day (and once in a blue moon, on a Saturday) and expects to see your ... , but another critic zooms in on a detail. You do know that your building ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... answering a surprise Final Fantasy question in quiz bowl finals, while wearing ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  you get to put your gown on and wait to graduate. I found about a ... dolphin smuggling was a bit more covert. There was no way to sneak them in ... and wave and say hi to a black guy sitting in the same spot on a bench

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... procrastination). What I’m trying to say in a haphazard way is that things will ... evalute your strengths and weaknesses after. Allow yourself to change. In

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... investigating inflation in “brane world” models.” His MIT faculty page says that ... been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting ... unfortunately, "just a few hours" is not short enough to start a book at 11.30 pm ... [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot[/annotation]to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be ... , you won't get the result you want on your first try, but you have to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in ... behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not ... ? No matter what you write, your audience has to read it!* They get paid

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  through wikipedia pages and getting information and not doing anything with ... packing or whatever instead i am sitting and lying in bed and watching all ... going out (not with a bang but with a whimper)

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a ... -midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... technology to market. My experience with GEL is limited to a guest lecture in ... ’s control. There were a few short modules in 6.UAT that ended up having a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw. Long story short, part of the project involves using a Vernier Lab Quest

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... dotted line! Troubleshooting: If you just get a solid line, you’re either ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021