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  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  So like Mitra pointed out in her blog this week, this week MIT ... see, it was an awesome movie. I definitely suggest checking it out just ... , but they ran out. (Bryan talking to himself in 3rd person) Bryan: So

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , not because I wasn’t working out any more, but due to an awful ... better. In the two years I was gone, I[annotation note="unless you count ... a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  kitchen, I decided that I hadn't roller bladed in a while and I missed it ... + Roller Blades = awesome. Rumor has it that I can get a fine for skating ... think about what it'd be like to have no cares or worries. As it is, I can

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  stories tall - I'm never really sure because, as you can see, the first ... many times as you can in four hours (bananas and Gatorade provided at the ... So this weekend, East Campus hosted the Bad Ideas Weekend, which can

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... in the morning*. Hey Stewardess, can I have another cookie? *This was a ... they have actual job titles? Can I abbreviate this to “BPAFOSIPIDC

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action ... I'm working on is too large, I find that I can't get in the zone. It ... existed in the first place. And now that I think about all the things I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  I can be the young intern who is distinctly swimming in a bra and ... close early in Denmark, and I hadn’t been able to find anywhere with cake ... ."]shirts,[/annotation] chugged espresso from a [annotation note = "the BOLD cans, in fact, which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  function f in their prompt, can generalize and figure out the value of new ... enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  project on Day 1. Turns out, as I think it often does in science research ... . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... as you can often see in movies but i'm a steady person. I'm not a guy ... senior staff (i.e. not me) so I can't give you an exact answer, but you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... puddles when I just stomp right through them." In other important news, get ... Medical School and I barely can remember if cyclobutene is flat or not (Sam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  meantime, I'm trying to cram in as much elementary German that I can before I ... out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all ... of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  taken, and the projects I've done in them.   21W.750: Experimental ... experimental writing. As you can see below, I chose to use repetitive letter ... super interesting! I'm Recovering at Home Thankfully, I am now out of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4 ... ? Pull yourself out from under that rock. I'm not talking about that silly ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... out. I think the biggest benefit of my APs in terms of getting into ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  can give. Here we are, in this universe where I chose MIT. I love MIT in ... had been totally fine. But I couldn’t help but worry. Perhaps in my mind ... ’s exit options to attend medical school, but I recently checked her LinkedIn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006