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• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... afterward. Then, I’m going to Chocolate City for Ill Vibes, an open mic sort ... tell. It is for this reason that I try to be as tolerant and lenient with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for ... requirements left for one senior year; I've only taken 9.01 Introduction to ... article, the exact kind of piece I'd want to work on. MIT has one of about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  roasted for trying to turn this essay into another opportunity to humblebrag. Lesson learned. It's actually okay to do things for fun, guys. I still ... had signed up for because, “Hey, there might be free cookies!” (There

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  imbibing marijuana or drinking, which leads her to the halfway house for ... how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... have a video of her I took on my phone trying to get her to say “Abush

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long ... ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured ... Independent Activities Period! Only two months away! picking my classes for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4 ... any guy won back-to-back US Open titles (Federer won last year, he's looking to win again) Ok, that's enough pretending that I know about tennis

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my ... Socrates. So much for philosophy. books/making time to read/coping with life ... 's much easier for me to justify skipping a workout when all that's at stake

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  , working out how to compute integrals on my own or creating new methods of computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT ... . I'm still sad that I've lost my old love for it, and really need to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  down, two more to go. 2:10 PM – For the next three hours, we present our ... : https://www.facebook.com/imesmit/videos/1908234159392157/ Three down, one more to go. 5:02 PM – The instructor for 17S.914 ... for me to be a college student. It’s more than just doing psets and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a ... instructors who would be jumping with me and holding on to me during freefall ... .  The instructors just hold on to you and give you hand signals to help

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 ... close enough to the truth for the purposes of this entry.) 3. Applicants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  /chase car for protecting and directing the solar car, a scout car to report on ... race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my ... ’t at all sure how to write it. I wasn’t there for the whole time, to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  . Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other ... the top ten (+/- 3) places on campus to study. This week, I ... me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling ... based on the class--for 18.02 they take attendance but I haven't tested if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  Massachusetts] on November 10, 1979. You can actually listen live right now to WMBR -- go here for the stream, good to listen to while you're studying ... intended to distribute his TV station in Atlanta (then called WTCG) over

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... little more... Fenty For at least a week or two I had been sleeping on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  understanding this. Yay brains! Yay neurons! You have them to thank for all those things you take for granted – consciousness, your ability to store memories ... neurons for permitting me to learn about... 8.286: The Early Universe Look

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I ... . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  we can drive you back to your dorm with them. Oh, and we'll pay for it ... edible for the team to eat. The "Senior Surprise" consisted of homemade ... actually filled with water, I believe. People were shouting for us to watch

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my ... me and motivating me with concerts to keep me going and keep me, for ... overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021