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  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  ) nobody in my family has ever won the lottery, suggesting that my otherwise ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... my genetic misfortunes, despite the misguided expectations instilled in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... well in your quest to learn more about MIT. [read more] Ben's First Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... lives up in pictures, detailing the events they attend, the reality shows

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... second, wanted to sit in it and be wheeled around and pulled in and out of the ambulance.) After that, we got to sit around in the (really awesome

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  actually involved in selecting the class of 2010??" You can view some of them in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the ... you school does not follow the US school system do you need to hand in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  romantically?" "If you dipped your person's head in liquid nitrogen so their hair ... (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  whatever word you want. In a bout of curiosity-fueled insanity that is not uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... a lot of risks in making this post."]sleep-deprived college student

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... ? these thoughts have always felt like they kept me grounded, in a sense, so what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college ... class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... large, oddly-shaped area under the curve and zoom in: And then keep zooming in: And then suddenly, if you zoom in far enough, the curve isn’t a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  still covering old material, and there are no exams in sight. Perhaps a ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time ... respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... weird coupling, I know. When I was in business school I had an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... tagged along and watched, wide-eyed, as the upperclassmen in our ... is just as valuable as having the practical skills entailed in that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our group also picked up whatever viral assemblage has been partying in my ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge, Autumn is slowly creeping in. You don't notice her at first - but there ... in Taiwan that we only have two seasons in a year - "wet and hot" and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007