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  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  over a month!) Well, here it is: Starting from pretty much the first ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... MIT, I was surprised to find fliers in the hallways advertising for SAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  on my physics exam, the waddle in my gait. All of that is easy to love ... 've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... to do something. This doesn't mean that the reason is always meaningful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... is also taking the class and we were able to test-run each other ... to slap, falling to the ground in a clumsy heap.   At that time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  all students of the room/suite in which the guest is staying. The host ... . Sleeping overnight in the public areas of a House (e.g., lounges) is ... tends to confuse these groups of people is the housing system, and how it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to ... .   4   I have a quote and poem to share. quote "In the ... . “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  a fulfilling life is often to just live in the moment and do the ... to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... ’t verbalized to myself: it is okay to not know everything right now. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  also be some of the most interesting people you come across. Getting to ... you. We will be spending our time in close proximity to the Charles ... return back to the aircraft in full health and safety (although we suggest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  stuff that the little stuff is just that much harder to take ... things. This is going to be the defining picture of this school year, for ... that, as always, it is in bad times that we truly see the strength of our

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  (the proper formation of sentences) of Afrikaans is comparable to that of ... -philosophy point of view, one of the implied, overarching goals of the course is to ... you put in, and the willingness to grow as a scientist that you exhibit

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... differences. Each of the teams also wanted to pull the project in a certain

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  titled "THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER." The story ... bathroom and singing along to "Mamma Mia" while brushing our teeth in the ... concluded that most of them were, in fact, not. They had missed the point! The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  't like very much, so I dropped it in the second week and didn't even log a ... + friends right in my dorm. the good thing about quarantine is that it makes ... choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote ... students at Stanford in talking to the Stanford administration about this ... the most of these next 4 years – you’re in for such a treat! For those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  quite interested in MIT. The problem is, previously I had been most ... Raleigh Charter High School is supposed to be really good, ranked 9th in the ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  to worry about it in the first semester, which is pass/no record.) It ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... -stage to their partners in rhyme and to their fans in the audience. The

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  out which produce is closer to ripening. in one of the labs we built an ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that they were the exact same: i’m not going to talk much about the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the ... how much I enjoyed being in the makerspace, making physical objects that ... classes. In order to take 2.007 Design & Manufacturing I (the robot

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  MIT is absinthe used to demonstrate the real-life relevance of binary ... to Random after class, I took a picture for the Internet. What else is ... ” (in the eternal words of Donald Guy '12, who, unlike basically everyone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  information. It’s probably one of the most interesting concepts in the world to ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight ... of, in order to graduate from MIT), most freshmen take some sort of ... continue in 8.012 or drop down to regular 8.01. The unfortunate caveat: I had

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007