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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  interesting, to say the least. Orgo is notorious for being slightly less fun ... . (I will say that I like the subject matter more than that of 5 ... , Dr. Berkowski, is fantastic. The other day in lecture she put up the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  are all very welcome. I hope it helped you chill a little about the ... handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as ... any of the despartments?" So UROPs are pretty cool, or so I'm told

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... " by girl in red as the reference for this blog's title) Between the climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  the most so she goes crazy every time we open a can. also her purrs are ... . She also really likes to lie in the sun, which I do as well, so when I’m at home sometimes I’ll sit in the sun and she will nap in my lap. Here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in ... , maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat ... meat on the farm and tried to keep it up after I left, but I wound up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  literally THREE weeks into the semester. Anyways... Last Friday, I woke up ... four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most fun I've had in a while. But it also was the first time I'd moved for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  's what has changed, besides the things that are glaringly obvious... i ... the best use of my time anymore. time management comes easier — i was ... 't regret it since i'd gotten a lot done during the day and had worked the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with ... ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me quickly. We met and the next thing I know I'm handing in a sheet of paper

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location, but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the ... . Something feels different for me—among the usual buzz of activity

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A: If you have not completed all the testing requirements by the October

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  have bridged the transition with a reasonably low rate of psychotic ... the comfort of a thriving campus community, where everyone I know lives no more than half a densely populated mile away -- made me miss the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... . However, over the years, I've heard a lot of advice and have even given some ... the time and see printed in a bunch of books, but there are two bits of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... , it's because MIT hates me. II -- Yesterday, while sitting in the ... went down to the Museum of Science, over to Boston, all down the shore of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  worried about it than I am about my first major paper due the day after both the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... would've read "What's the science olympiad? There are actually schools

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... material unless the application did not sufficiently show who you are. I hope ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  content warning: mental health, academic stress, burnout tick The institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... Vegas! (my hometown)']a place that never sleeps.[/annotation] Even in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  behalf? The interesting thing about this question is that we often get asked more or less the same thing during non-pandemic times. The first two ... the last one: "Who should I ask to write letters on my behalf? And the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... things since coming to MIT, which really makes me wonder what the space ... math problem that I was capable of doing in the tenth grade. These were

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been ... start right off the bat with ~love~ or whatever 16 year old me thought ... picture getting married to him. So we revelled in the teenage dream that is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017