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  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  rink. I used to take ice skating lessons in Indiana, but all I can ... currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern ... spent frolicking in Indiana. When I think fall, I think piles of crunchy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know ... ended. the classroom was in 34-101, and my next thing was in 34-501, so i ... some lunch, and sneak in some stardew valley before my next class. have i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  in September and resume my life as an MIT student. Until then, I can ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... not pay it any attention. In those ten minutes before I’m scribbling ... included the bonus song “Crazier” by Taylor Swift. I was drawn in by the the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all ... (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... been no different, unfortunately. I posted the following in the '11

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home ... might have guessed, I'm in that chair pretty often! I've been spending a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative answer. Expect an entry either later tonight or tomorrow about how I ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... have so much more life experience than my kids have and I can envision

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... this year. Q. I'm not a super-genius. Can I still survive at MIT? A ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   thinking about how i would go to college in a place like this, and now i’m here ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... they take in oxygen, mit feels bigger now. i feel bigger now. i feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... tendency to try and take as many classes as I can, then promise to drop some of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think ... IAP, and then maybe I can make it as far back as last semester ... adventures in EE), I didn't do much this IAP, so I should be able to just knock

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  9:00 AM! How on earth will I stay awake in class?!?! I have an idea.... ... have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should ... , I think. Can YOU figure out what I wrote?? Maybe I'm better off

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  [by Harrison Bralower '11] I distinctly remember that question when I ... think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper without it looking too conspicuous? When you're not wearing anything in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... in the how-to-program sequence (after 6.0001, which starts at the very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  have a dedicated home office space. I always read in my office so I can ... long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  was walking in the basement below the Infinite Corridor and I briefly ... helps. The place really, really helps. It's not quite MIT until I can walk ... MIT until I can crash my friends' rooms. Over the past year, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was ... ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018