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  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  sophomore here for Physics and Computer Science. In addition to academics, I ... community in a brand new way. I've taken this opportunity with my brotherhood ... across the country come just to get their pediatric care. All we need from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned ... -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  some sort of physics lab tour, and I stopped in between only to get ... when you have to get off in Florida 80-degree weather and will sweat ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story ... A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the wood, or even how to use any power tools whatsoever, I was confident that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... exhibit in February of the work of New York-based artist Cheyney Thompson ... Holidays to all and best wishes for the New Year.

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got ... visit, there hadn't been anyone in the exhibit to guide us. This time ... the lives of the Blaschkas: how they got an initial 10-year contract to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... how much effort to put into understanding a subject also came up in 18 ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  questions about MIT, about life here, about how to survive day-to-day, about how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning ... you'd like to see us bloggers clarify or explore in future posts

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... meaningless sacrifice. Anyway, Sam's Mom just figured out how her brand-new DVR ... MIT students here in rainy Harrisburg, PA), so I'm going to hold off on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in ... me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  very easy to talk to people, make connections, and work together to get new data and apply novel ways of thinking to improving the driving ... practical knowledge, experience, and vision. How would they react to our

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the eagerness to get the hell out of the desert, I lost sight of the foundation

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  pens for bright kids to go four years reveling in how bright they are ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... 5 on AP Calculus BC in high school, so I was expecting to get credit ... decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... 's it. It's rare for any freshman to live in Burton-Conner for more than two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... can’t do MISTI I’m looking forward to this class. 21L.702 Studies in ... day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  handed out copies of her demos to record labels in Nashville, only to get ... mind trying to get it back Wasn’t it easier in your lunchbox days Always ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to

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

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  Chairman, Ben S. Bernanke—I ended up beginning to write in earnest just three ... -seven consecutive hours of consciousness in my scramble to actually finish it. By the ... to prevent them from jumping the proverbial shark. in my year, it was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  would like to get out of the experience, have a preliminary idea of ... necessary arrangements to attend, and are not waiting, in typical MIT fashion until the very last minute of the April 5 deadline to get registered

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012