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  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... 's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job wasn't a problem because I made up the missing hours by teaching a few ... somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  other extracurricular stuff, ahhh. I wish there were a pause button for life. Or maybe just a fast-forward button - because I cannot waittt for ... 'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... -more-mechanically-inclined boyfriend, Daniel M. ’14. For us, physics was always a collaborative

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  to say they were not qualified to run for office. When women do run ... of those hard enough? I didn’t give myself a reason to step up, but ... Conference for College Women Student Leaders in College Park, Maryland, and met

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha ... finals week I get up extra early for two mornings and make sure that there ... as mentors, role models, guides, and resources for the students who

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the ... making money. I had money saved up from over the summer but it quickly ... up a lot of your time. Here are my top ten ways to earn money at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  [The Call For Guest Entries has been updated/modified] Wow, excuse ... activate it you need to speak blender to it. I could describe it for you all ... . Blendie. CPW is screaming up on us guys! I'm excited, it sounds like you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  -desk-things that are perfect for setting up shop and spending several hours buried in ... 'm all for taking pictures, even having taken many stupid ones myself ... books. I know I've never gone there for books. I go there because it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2) posting it when I had no wireless. Not cool, Sam. Actually I went out for ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  energy. Jiu-Jitsu prepares a person for any situation, including stand-up ... chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... for "remote hunters" - people participating from distant cities and such

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  for Boston, picked it up off my desk and stuck it into my pocket. Not ... when she ran out of unsweetened bakers' chocolate, so she chopped up some ... moments I saw. For example, there was the "delicious and healthy" Rachael

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

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down ... silly silly vern vern. So, read on for a well-crafted narrative and ... a stunned grouse, for one hour, nine minutes, and seventeen seconds

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... admit we’re making it up as we go m: yup guess that’s liberating _____ m: okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  amounts innovation for over 150 years. Look, now I`ve gotten all riled up ... Optimist" and I love it. I picked it up soon after returning from my 4 month ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  yearlong pause. To make up for this bitter disappointment, we’re moving ... craft sore, you struck up an anxious conversation with the stranger ... . For those of you in transition years, graduating high school and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything ... up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... has already been done for me - check out this fusion performance of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019