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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  learning about engineering in the industry as my top criteria. Turns out, I ... most of MIT. I need to decide what I want out of my MIT experience. I ... investment. Better yet I had to make my decision in a week. Everyone deals

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . And four, I can finally kind of sort of walk (more like stumble) my way ... about four years old, my family and I got into a car accident in India. As ... remember is seeing everyone stumble out of the car as I spit a mouthful of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time ... if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... universe and did the impossible and fell in and out of love in a million

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  , but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... shorter than the previous one, unless i pull as hard as i can to stretch it out. in his post, sam wrote: Do new things often. This seems to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  the situation. I then point out that we are all in that situation of the ... enjoy about the subject, and I hope they can be useful to you in deciding ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... starters, I wasn’t in a huge lecture hall filled with hundreds of people. It seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  . In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list ... raised in a world without the its classic taste). After that, I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can ... 's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is ... final presentation I will be in part presenting on Monday, so that'll be a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... wandering in and out of Baker so something is going on there. Other than that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  can stably afford a house and kids in the greater Boston area and go out ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational ... partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... minor in Ancient & Medieval Studies (AMS). When I tell people about

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  a pset-test-class kind of way. More in a let-me-absorb-as-much-of-this-place-as-I-can-before-I-leave kind of way. In three short months, I'll be graduating...can't believe it ... finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  infrastructure, because I can’t imagine biking everywhere in Boston or Tucson ... . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  out of the ~20 cheerleaders on the squad. I think I'll just list what ... ... that's cheerleadery, isn't it? Jess '08 Well-- I'm in Italy studying ... (Building 37) Details: I'm working with a group that is involved in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006