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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  investment. Better yet I had to make my decision in a week. Everyone deals ... internship, I even used a decision matrix in which you rate criteria and ... functioned as a more systemic method to organize how I felt about each option

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted ... : Luckily I can say that beyond the weather, Chicago was quite good to me ... ! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  . I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the ... ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... two things. Thing number one: Prefrosh had been there. How could I tell

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Microsoft, working on Surface keyboard (that's all I can say, the rest is ... ; knit a scarf I wish I knew how to knit. Anything else you want to say or ... ? I am doing an internship at Institut Néel, learning how to simulate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... happening in the background so I was slightly losing my mind. It was very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... week, and probably more frequently depending on how stressed out I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to see how it goes in the future. Lastly, I watched Dororo, which I got ... to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... nervous about how the semester would go. Yes, I heard it wasn't the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... ; can't be stressing about working out. I'll start tomorrow. On Jan 7, it ... Feb 20, it means: How did I gain 90 pounds? Aaargh! Gotta start soon

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... pressure, I began to ideate. I considered teaching “how to make ... outdated, but think Galahad in Temple Anthrax. I’d recently brushed up on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of ... F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D. My last final is over, my boxes are packed, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  'm sure you can expect an entry or two about it in the future. ... Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... and said "Look! Susan Hockfield! I'll totally hug her for a dollar." I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  [/caption] I found this small sketchbook in my drawer that I impulse-bought from ... nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen ... out of using one in the first place. I didn't worry about perfect lines

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  please, bear with me). What I can control is how I handle myself in every ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought ... taking better care of myself. I can’t control the unexpected things in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  .022 TEST THING OMG AND I SPENT SO MUCH TIME STUDYING AND I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW ... ). Wonderful? Out of this world? No, the question is... Can you SURVIVE??? I ... -variable calculus and the 18.02's are types of multi-variable calculus). I came in

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  comments, which I will respond to in an untimely fashion. I'll let you know when. You can count on me, can't you? I think I eventually come to love all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... this summer, and I was in Cambridge. So I signed up for Alternative

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... in India. Last Tuesday was my final day in Anaikatti, when I turned in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  , that gives 84 TED talks you can watch in your rapidly diminishing waiting ... thoughts, you'll become more illuminated in 84 topics. That can be useful no ... remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  -way presentation. In a two-way conversation, for example, you can ask "and how about ... folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I ... , when I first took Calc BC in sophomore year, Calc was just a huge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009