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• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... ethnicity openly and honestly. Don't just play up the school's strengths, but

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... working on the same puzzle for the last 4 hours answers the phone. "Hello

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  college card, which, as you've been told many times before, is given FOR ... "Symphonie Fantastique"--the one that got him hooked up with actress Harriet ... at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... spent 2 months preparing for it and was so depressed when I got 116, 4 ... dormmates come up: "Hey Chris, good morning! You're up early today

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I run up, two steps at a time. The colorful squares covering the walls on ... ="104830" /] As the school year progresses, I find myself leaving Simmons for class

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  in hopes of catching up to my current life. For example, I have a good ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as I'm typing this now, I should be packing for my Chicago flight that

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  mixed up. I've been reflecting on the changes in bits 'n' pieces as the ... different. A lot of things are simpler: splitting up fridge space, figuring ... 's shifted how I approach leaving the house. I can't just go home for lunch

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all ... no door painting for me that year. Or the next. This blog post is the ... complete psets and exams remotely. They were also super fun for drawing on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  your computer do it for you. Starting from the app I picked up right ... journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was ... feel like I'm being organized, at least for my sanity" [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science minor I regret this, because 1) I ended up aborting this plan, and 2) it caused me to take 6.042: Math for Computer Science and 6.006: Algorithms

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  —although I ended up learning a lot, a valuable lot. It was for interaction, a ... backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... .” I ran up to Tally, and a short while later, I was standing by a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  indecisive is that you should sign up for all the classes worthy of ... Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance ... the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of ... finished 8th grade), if not for the unhappy fact that I climbed 253 flights

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  for the SATs, I suggest Up Your Score. It's cute and funny, and while it ... -voiced office secretaries, just change into whatever time works for you or which ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her ... lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE THE WHALE! Nice weekend. More later. Okay, more. So, for words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  ) when they come around. I’ve hesitated with writing up this post for a ... planned for my life to work out alright. But I’ve decided to write up this ...  interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that Ceri TA'd and Yuliya took, and we all ended up making episodes for season 3 ... . AWESOME. Let me back up a bit. See, back before dubsmash and the Doge meme

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  pay hundreds of dollars to pick up. So I went to the society fair, signed up for a dozen more mailing lists than I should have and tried my ... . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  means: Well, the week is up. I'll definitely start tomorrow. On Jan 31 ... notwithstanding. For the even slightly sentimental, there might be this feeling that 2014 should open up with some sort of bang—performers at Times

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014