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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  oxidized so many of my beloved energy molecules in preparing for a biology ... front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... “Freshmen cavorting in freshly-raked piles of leaves”. In this case, please

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... there were people sitting in the aisles of our biggest lecture hall for ... housing for free in return for volunteering at Commencement. More later

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of ... . But in an attempt to eschew the "nerdy girl" stereotype for Devi, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for tooling through pset problems like currency and slowly but surely I finished

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  in Ghana--a research institute of sorts, for younger students. He ... during his time in Ghana purely out of enthusiasm for the project. Other ... bypass liability issues for the pilot program. On his return to MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn ... [/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I ... pet kittens in real life for the first time (THEY WERE SMOL AND CUTE AND

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  . The same goes for much that happens in your brain. Take sleep for ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... everyday, but in weirder ways than one might first imagine. Take for instance

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... pretty smoothly until she brought up that she would be waking up for crew

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  for a full recovery! Since then, I have been pitching in where I can ... of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  [annotation note="bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in ... decisions for the Class of 2028 will be released Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12 ... , [annotation note='I suggest you go practice logging in there now, so that you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects ... —the college application process in general—for a very, very long time. (A lot of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  back in it. I’d better be back in it for something that matters, a tech ... . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  a woodshop, tool room, and tons of free wood in the basement. Some ... old shower rod and 90° metal brackets" /] Drilled in screws for my ... What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... pursuing treatment for a few long standing mental health issues, tremendously ... , for the time being, with being a work in progress; and with doing things

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  --ambitious, since I’m leaving for Ethiopia on August 6th and was in China until June ... . in that I always used to be hungry for books, and I like the image of ... much as stumble across it in the library. The book I initially read for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  in full swing, but mayhaps you’ll find this useful for future semesters ... preregister for classes that you're even vaguely interested in?"]not preregister ... major requirements you have and have not completed; handy for making sure

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022