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  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , I am your advisor, and I want to make it clear that I strongly advise ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the bright, motivated doctors in the world have never taken serious time off

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  so I could stand around the track in the athletic center for several ... capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... , since it wasn't really staying in one place and was making everything ... thought that maybe scotch tape would be a better adhesive in this situation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... with friends or with activities I enjoy. In spring of 2013, the questions ... . At this point, I've probably gone far too far in the opposite

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  Things are actually pretty calm here in New England, even with the ... excited, sure, but the third win in four years for the Pats is nothing ... in the meantime feel free to use this post's comments section to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  world works in mysterious ways. Throughout this past year, I’ve blogged a ... while in a pandemic. Among all that, I feel like haven’t spent enough time ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  continues to maintain our website. In addition, later on we formed a few sub ... assigned reading (ie. the myriad blog entries regarding Ring Premiere in the ... ), and I am proud to present this year's Ring Premiere to you in words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... there are people who are immensely better than I am at math in every ... it themselves. At this point in my life, I think I agree. When I try to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... this semester (told in alliteration because why not?):  1. People Since

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  !) and I were hard at work in his suite lounge on Conner 4: Then Aaron decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... Sam pose for a picture in front of Burton-Conner. Notice that Sam is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  reason exists in Walker Memorial, right next to East Campus"]the Muddy ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends. on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  ’s as if the women have cleared spaces in their lives for meteoric careers ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... burnout. They seem to lose their motivation and desire after a few years in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  . Clearly, this was not ideal. My study/support group (all 6 of the girls in ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  spend the month making themed websites in exchange for prizes and ... events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... talks. This terrified my roommates and me because we thought we were in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  extensively on this website and in many blog posts. Plus, you wouldn’t want any ... at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  Ensemble in general, visit our website at http://web.mit.edu/ensemble/www/. ... . When most people think of Shakespeare they imagine old English men in ... —written about a fifteenth-century civil war—in an alternate version of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  derivation as clear as possible, but if you’re not interested in it, skip past ... MIT, won the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially, the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology. MIT's biology department, in contrast, is largely a biochemistry ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take ... graduate program; in MIT's case, the strength of the graduate program is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  escalating unpredictable horrible move-out week in March, and how even just ... look like in a few months. I could, and maybe sometime I will, write ... school where I can do so while majoring in something completely different

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020