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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a ... swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  did the test again (I only studied briefly for SAT I), considering that ... some extent, so you can't really divide them up so cleanly. Your above ... -mail?" Not yet. We are discussing this as a possibility for the future, but it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  It's always awkward to post an entry about my classes for the semester, because later when classmates google the class number, they end up ... Secretary for Economic Policy with the U.S. Treasury Department. Currently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  varsity sports teams (tied with some school up the street, I've heard, for ... rate is consistent with the national average for 18 to 22-year-olds -- any analysis which suggests otherwise fails to properly account for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... . I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the You ... of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every ... yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  pages of the comic here, but sign up for their newsletter to get the full ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... over the summer, we couldn’t decide between 21E and CMS, and ended up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  almost two years, which is probably some sort of life record for me -- I ... visiting my mom's class (she's a fifth-grade teacher in the district) for ... 'm meeting up with my best friend from high school and we're going to watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame ... time goes on- so even though there's plenty of room for improvement, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Chelsea R. ‘15 to talk about one of her favorite classes, Writing for Social Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... online work can be a helpful distraction for those of you who are waiting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  wake up. It's a bit sad, but maybe I will carry this for life. I also ... old pretty quickly. It was a great place for children to grow up, but it ... each part of my life since I left this school. Too bad for you if you are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  [Dear kuya, how are things there? What's up, is it cold there? It's hot ... the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  are four-week-long work experiences for MIT students. January 2022 micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... decent work set-up. The first week of January was full of onboarding tasks

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... 're the stupidest one there? MIT doesn't have ranks for this exact reason

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  so cute its life-changing"]30 second short[/annotation] for 20 minutes ... of the project and our first meeting was scheduled for 3 pm EST the ... junior who had lived on campus for a year and half before [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February ... off, but I'd put two or three blogs in a week to make up for it. Keep ... planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You ... harmony it generated for Tong Hua was pretty good, as well as for this piece

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is ... hard to build the friend group that I craved. And for my first year and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019