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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be ... out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I ... hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... teaching myself the language Processing, adding to Matlab, Python, VB.NET, and Assembly that I learned since coming to MIT.) Fun!  See? Anyways

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  thing I currently have to a job, and expecting me to have any deep insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to analyze Hamlet, or a Harvard student to solve a math problem. So I'll leave

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper. Sounds legit right? At this point, you might be curious as to how we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at LaVerdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie that I NEEDED to basically inhale at that point in time when I dropped my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... to read and write than other students, and she has to spend extra time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned from my five-week expedition to India. Fine; even though IAP is ancient

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend who's gotten pretty involved with MIT THINK. She asked me to let her ... awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a ... got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design ... . This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time. Said illusion is currently failing to function. Case in point: Where did

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  your first trimester grades. Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your Guidance Office in order to complete the Midyear Report accurately. Your Guidance Office does not need to mail your midyear grades to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... longer. I don't think I've ever quite emptied a tube of toothpaste to this ... heart. There are much easier ways to fulfill requirements. Yesterday, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... impossible to satisfy everyone, you know? For example, if you really wanted to pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008