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Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
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Blog / MIT Life
The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!
Fahrenheit. I learned how to spell cumulonimbus, in preparation for my brother’s spelling test, and I learned how to cook things that are not cereal, in ... burg, and I could count down the miles to home. I live in State College -
Blog / MIT Life
This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.
, then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I ... can run 43 miles per hour, which is much faster than I can pedal my bike ... . And I saw an ostrich across the street from a Chinese restaurant in the -
Blog / Events
[Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs
, when I’m sitting in the solar car, I can’t see behind me. There is no ... ’t at all sure how to write it. I wasn’t there for the whole time, to ... fiction,’ I can assure you it is not :) Background Info (Not really a story -
Blog / Challenges
from me to you burn it all down
the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time -
Blog / Challenges
leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester
can no longer be a part of “When people ask me why I live in ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you -
Blog / Academics & Research
In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p
yesterday when I was still sitting in 8.01, worrying about understanding how ... focus now, when we are so close to graduating. I can't count how many ... Hey guys, happy 2011! It's been awhile. As I write this, I'm in San -
Blog / Challenges
am i boring or just overstimulated?
can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that -
Blog / Admissions
Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.
throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of ... better picture of who you are, how you are in the classroom, how you think -
Blog / How to Human
I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?
a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... [/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can ... realities really could be me in a year. And as I continue this whole process -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer
passed on to me. I counted. The word “how” appears 12 times in the ... , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... from, and how I used to be. I used to be afraid of change. Complacency -
Blog / MIT Life
a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta
're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here. Because a lot of us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I -
Blog / Life after MIT
How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.
less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer ... making the final cut. This is not how my college applications went. I was ... emerged since then: I am twenty-five, not sixteen, and my mucking about in -
Blog / Residential Life
how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod
torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and the rain is sufficient to water [annotation note="I have all sorts of -
Blog / Academics & Research
A love letter to psets Masochists In Training
frolic in the joys of psetting while I can, eh? p^3.s. don't worry, despite ... concept. You've twisted my mind in ways I didn't know it could twist before ... equations and formulas that I learned in high school, but by making me apply -
Blog / Academics & Research
will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.
at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... I got an email the other day from Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65 -
Blog / Admissions
“the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying
that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and ... , which is why I have always found the advice "the worst thing that can ... company (this has happened a few times when I didn't perform well in a -
Blog / Admissions
Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…
MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... -bad letter even worse. I only hope that you can accept our apology and ... sign that we don't care. While I understand how one could feel that way -
Blog / Classes
Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post
-deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the ... the largest impact in how I approached programming. I think these two -
Blog / Events
IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)
, because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... -making and there's so much more happening that I wish I could participate in but can't because I'm home reading your applications. (It's okay, you