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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade ago we worked on FictionAlley together. I was in the group that fled Fan

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  is nice, but I guess you can't really compete against school pride ... The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni Association, and three years ago I came to work in the admissions office in my

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  how to either solve or live with my problems in spite of everything, i ... trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  't! (That's usually how I made notecards in high school). Notecards are meant ... , Sleep; pick two" and just having been here a few months I can certainly see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... desk is nice, but i can either stand or get work done playing ... 've lived in so far, i think boston is still my favorite i want to live

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  stuff. And it truly hit me how much I've grown and done in these three ... school, how being abandoned my friends was the worst pain I've ever felt in ... lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  of my other 7 semesters, this semester is one that I can do whatever I want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... I can't wait to tell you why 9.24 and 9.26 are awesome, so here goes ... —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... been wondering how this fits into the content of the class itself, and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the ... that might fit. But all I can think about is the things that don’t, and ... … all I can really think of is the places. The infinite. Killian Court

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  as much apple juice as I want, as often as I want, in whatever size glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own Apple Juice Acquisition, I can! Apple Juice Liberation is upon us! Okay

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best ... vaguely in order of decreasing personal importance: Physics. I’m taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... nail down. Have I become more independent? How have my values changed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it ... . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... . =) Anyway, the point is, I know it's awesome...but in my world, still less

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  is Azerbaijanian" all of which I learned how to say in middle school ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem ... learned from a poster in my high school library when I was 13 years old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... dozen other MIT students in South Wales, I was the only MIT student in ... train back from a day trip in Liverpool. Then I painted a few scenes while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023