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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are ... . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... 't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into ... desperately wanted to distinguish myself in some way, but I always felt that she

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... that–kids. When I first met my adviser, she must have mentioned how young

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October. That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... niche and was growing more comfortable in it daily. I wasn’t just barely

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... 'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... then there are my professors, who have, as far as I can tell, been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it they are supportive and tell me to keep doing what I can. They constantly remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  that i didn't know how to understand, so i gesture towards them in ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , forming a pit in which it can trap and digest slightly larger creatures ... how cutting a starfish up can give you more starfish than you started ... /herself/itself laying down in vastness of debris, accumulated waste. How does the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... 'll never know what you can accomplish until you push yourself. I also found ... med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra ... in themselves. A few days ago, I found myself sitting with a sophomore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... used in the video, photographed by fellow student Chheangkea I. '17 Now ... does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... temp. 9:45 AM. I am putting the DNAs back in my box when I discover that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015