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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  see this, in contrast to the above, I think about how the use of type ... brief stint, some time in my life, when I really tried to learn how to ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  don't go to MIT assume that MIT kids don't know how to have good parties ... My last few entries have been, well, very academic. You get the point ... work. I decided it was time for another "fun" entry. I mentioned in my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i ... get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... stuff gets brought up in [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7.06[/annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  feelings that were washing over me in waves. Instead of getting straight to ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the ... longer under my control. Week four was when things started to get hairy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  during IAP due to work, but I'm back, and we are going to have a great ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a different light and expect you to be the expert in everything. Trust me, this ... helped to create giant underground lakes in ancient Egypt . . . at least I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go ... , just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  extent, it doesn't matter. If you're good enough to get into MIT, you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... life. So, while I'm excited to get a six week paid vacation in Germany, I ... this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in ... getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too ... year, I wanted to spend my three months back in Texas. I looked forward

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  to just trying to find time to rest but really not...getting any. This ... get extremley red and I would scratch it to the point where my skin ... campus living at MIT, I would try to never study in Random. I found it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... 's website to see if I could afford one.  The math never worked :( In late ... an offer in December and, after realizing that I was about to have $50k

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  in Boston How to get to place to sleep How to get back to the ... change it when I get in to see if there's anything else but I'll keep u ... to the same place as me, maybe I should get in line too? There’s only

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... 't realize how much jargon was in these notes until I posted them. Now, big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  getting paid to sit in a place that generated so much joy. I love my UROP ... somehow will myself to trudge over to Stud5 to try and get some semblance of ... , getting an internship represents a lot more than just something to do over

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... :P Every once in awhile, you come to MIT and you hear of kids here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In ... movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  getting to hang out with them. in that respect, it is less fun, but more ... posting. i just needed to get these thoughts in writing. maybe i'll actually ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems ... . (This is mainly due to how awesome and entertaining these poems are.) For ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012