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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way ... email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  will be ecstatic to get their decision; many more will be disappointed ... 's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  graduate school, loved getting to know how to navigate the city streets with ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still ... were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still ... were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  blathered on and on about the optimal way to make money in game and how to ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... ? How much of a role does money really play in my life? I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  definitely get used to this. Hopefully, you feel the same way about the new ... website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... afraid to get our hands dirty, to move fast and break things, and to try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as ... 're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic Chemistry, we reviewed how to solve 2n + 4 = 15. 10.490: Integrated Chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get ... ignoring my noise complaint more in any way? Thanks :( sorry to be whiny

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  Sloan lab that I stumbled upon during a desperate mid-April I need-to-get ... to help... Eventually, I get back to work. I have to fill out a weekly ... dorm's role in COVID-19 developments; e.g. how the dorm will be utilized

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I ... class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  ’t get in trouble.” “No Mom, we did not get in trouble.” There was the ... their spelling exam.” “In that case, how were your—“ In the twins’ room ... -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... ... How could she know what an ounce of milk was supposed to look?   ... enough to describe the excruciating pain that she felt in her heart

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  stopped to get some of the best hot chocolate I have ever had in my life ... Station that we were literally standing in line to get to the top of the ... my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be ... required. Enrollment limited with preference given to students in the Media

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some point—had to find a way to cook the ramen in the absence of kettles. We ... bit of ramen in those extended palms, a mother forced to feed children

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... situations are, how each group has such a strong and rich culture to it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021