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• 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 ... .033): Same as above. -Intro to Cosmology (8.286): It hurts to drop this class ... .07): Having spent 6+ hours on the problem set already, I'm reluctant to drop

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... MIT, or should I say my hiatus from MIT (I will be returning to the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to get an MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in the beginning, I had some time to blog but I was like...uhm I don't have ... #2. (feel free to intersperse POW Japanese quiz BAM Japanese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... 't intend to take any computer-related classes, any engineering classes (hands ... lab that I didn't need to graduate, who TAed a robotics class

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog’ to me since she has decided that there are better and productive

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I decided to take matters into my own hands and e-mail Professor Christoper A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river

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

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with ... due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... to take, and i knew what courses i wanted to eventually take, and so 18

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . A voice narration begins. I attribute many feelings to love or to hate. When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... -all really. Because what I mean to say is that I am feeling a feeling about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not nearly enough sleep. I could go into the reasons for this – wanting to do

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ... transfer students who aspire to enter MIT in 2021."]coming application cycle ... sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really to speak. They could feel the sheer nervousness just radiating off ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming ... entrepreneurship and technical program designed to give undergraduates around the world the skillset and mindset needed to start their own companies. It was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... 't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  all that I could -- and wanted -- to manage on an eventful month ... 's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017