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• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  would be a fun, one-time-only endeavor. And the outing began pretty much ... away at the same routes again and again just to be met with the same ... to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Brian and me how to solder, but he is much better at it. Here he is, hard ... -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green-and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  center of the city, right where I want to be. There's so much waiting and ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions ... to look pretty appealing. And besides, I wanted to keep computing as a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical ... -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics ... geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  lucky to have had her in my life, and I know how much joy she brought ... , my host grandfather passed away, and two weeks ago, my cat was put to ... to play shogi and how to tend to his garden, and he took me all over

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  someone you see everyday and have been introduced to on numerous occasions ... has a future. Mirabelle is forced to choose between Ray and Jeremy, two ... embarrassing and want to feel better about yourself.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I ... and triceps might need to be a larger part of my life - asap!! I was ... and the techniques I need to work on. I'm also now fully aware that MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... . Beethoven wrote only one opera, and it was called "Fidelio." 2. Nearly all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  of overpriced food around Kendall and Central due to the proximity of ... . Then again, Crema Cafe recently closed to open Blue Bottle, and Momofuku Milk ... the year, from an annual free chocolate festival to free concerts and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  incoming freshmen in math and English to begin catching them up. Most people ... indoctrinated to the discipline and dress code, and they behave so very well. I ... tardiness, originality, enthusiasm, and general ability to suck up to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which shows just how ... freshly pressed suit, and made my way to the Career Fair. I talked with ... I wanted something, I needed to go above and beyond doing just what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself ... .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  and support that so many people provided in order to make this the ... a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two ... , and they responded with a level of excitement that I’ve come to expect

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... so freaking small and cute and I love her very much. We usually just ... boy because swims in his own poop water and then likes to get too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  academic experience, and if you’re an elite athlete who also happens to be smart, the draw of an amazing academic school is too much to resist. MIT ... As MIT Admissions’ one and only “jockblogger,” I have decided it’s my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  give as much time to my classes, friends, and passions as I want ... fucking idea" and to enter a relationship with someone almost done with ... conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... really, really wanted to just go to the grocery store and compare medium ... into this class on a masochistic whim and loved it. Whether I add it to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009