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  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  booked a hotel room. A $55K per year hotel room.  Of course, sometimes you ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall ... before a midterm. Don't buy textbooks until you start actually attending

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  5K with Brad, who is a marathon runner like myself. Sadly, he became a ... , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  education (K-12) policy, on writing in a democracy (with Bob Herbert from the ... Yes, several days without blogging. I'm sure you've been waiting with ... was a huge mail day. The records staff is currently working through 14

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

      A fun problem, from my 10-year-old brother’s Russian math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  sounds by place of articulation, but manner of articulation: [t] is a stop ... sound. (Put your hand up to your mouth and try saying [t] and [s] a few ... . For example: [t] is an unvoiced alveolar stop [z] is a voiced

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... , I mean he won a t-shirt. You'll be hearing it on radio stations ... least if MIT doesn't work out, I can make it as a backup singer.) Anyway

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  Stars! Okay, now I'm definitely not watching. Unfortunately, even after a year and a half of blogging, I still don't qualify as an star, so I was ... is like 5 minutes away from my house unless you're driving a car that I'm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  papers on pretty much whatever I'm interested in--my first paper was a five ... often true that you don't really need a story; just the feel and the ... Media Studies, taught by Ian Condry. He's a cultural anthropologist; his

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  cream with toons. it was a rare occasion where i didn't feel drained by ... doing good work that i can be proud of, and like i'm contributing a ... celebrated a good friend's twenty-first birthday. Today I'm reading danah boyd

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  Pictured above are some robots from the 6.270 IAP competition. I'm writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  overwhelmed, and loving everything I’m doing. Right now it’s hard to imagine a ... (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  -30. There was a club for everyone, and if there wasn't you could start it - we ... your four-year-old cousin to study. (Seriously, Mom; isn't it a little ... -backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  that are to come. I'm here to tell you that as long as you don't trip ... my overall wellness. I’m a person of numbers and statistics. And a ... weeks later, I’m in a simple knee brace, stumbling my way around. All is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  , and if you don’t understand how to use a tool, for instance, you can be ... *written by Sharon L. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of ... out, it’s a pretty involved process that involves passing components

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  draws ever closer, I can't believe that it's already been a year since I ... realization. (And when I say think I mean "I'm sure," and when I say a bit of a ... , though, it wasn't nearly that straightforward. I even know a good number of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957 ... TELL EVERYONE THAT I'M A CHAMPION UNICYCLER, AND I'LL PROBABLY HAVE ... kinda see why I didn't really want to finish this post? I'm embarassed. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  were doing it. I’m a grown adult. I can decide when a comprehensive snack ... didn’t want to wake. Megabus, for leaving promptly at 3 am, minus a ... isn’t even a bus. The kindergarten-sized folding chair you dug out of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a ... in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  replace all k sounds with t sounds but that didn’t last long for obvious ... am a native speaker, I don’t explicitly know a lot of the rules so it ... concert  I went to a chamber music concert with Holden M. ’25. I do not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022