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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... 're used pretty heavily, at least judging by the percentage of machines which ... whatnot. Grad school update: As of this evening, I have interviews at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  . There’s nothing like looking at all of the people that support all that ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston ... , after at least seven years of channelled and concentrated effort. I did it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  't know how at all, and I failed a bunch of tests. Miserably. And I had all ... not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  make a living out of making rhymes.   Laughed at bad ... Joseph Ducreux ones, because at one point of my life, I sort of wrote like ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin ... wouldn't be doing the day justice if I put it at the end of this one. ... Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all ... carpet of her second-story bedroom at 11pm switching between homework and ... the end of the line and I get off at the other end of the line, and then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... Mesopotamians were at the pinnacle of metallurgy and urban living, 500 years ago ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I

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

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers ... making decisions. Because at the end of the day, you aren’t alone. Yes, I ... Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  . Of course, I usually open youtube at times of great procrastination ... perfectionists, at least a little bit. A quick survey of my friends suggested that ... I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it's part of our ~MIT experience~ so we’re including it anyways) 1. We had ... make it at least 1 minute (!!!!). This made both of us super exited

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... ) resulted in a score of -313, but at least it returned something! Baby steps ... describing my sophomore year right now. This was me at the beginning of the

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

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  leading a village of Vikings. It's good to be back at school--see you all ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  one of the coolest project classes at MIT. I'll be sure to make a post ... 'm currently acting EIC of Technique, the yearbook and design club at MIT. Each ... /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  , that's pretty much the concept behind much of the learning at MIT: Mens ... ' pastime here at MIT.So if you were never a big fan of science before, you ... crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  employment of my high school friend Ryan at Doc Holliday's. 3. Every Friday ... threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  ).  And at this time of year especially, I'm usually back on the computer ... hopping with great things going on.   Come to think of it, I'd rather be at ... two nights at the Marriott in Cambridge?" asked my partner now peering

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  -school themed party of all time. No questions will be taken at this time ... of this. Planning fall living arrangements: Living at home is a mixed ... This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020