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• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought ... I did in middle school. I loved lego robotics, and my mom can testify that I would stay after school literally every single day to build and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... place, despite the heat. I really like how much nature is accessible there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we ... songs in the traditional language of Senegal, such as [translated] "I went

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... Conservation of Sleep, I would probably do my research there. A given glance ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  share this so I guess I'll stick it in here—Joey Googled ARIEL because ... phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  decisions going to be online in December? I'm trying to figure out how heavy ... course material are taken in jan... which would be after i've sent in my ... department here in India. so they arrange make up test in october 28th but i

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I ... that is no longer accessible. When I think of this place in space and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  on how far they live from a "high quality" hospital. And I am studying ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and again in 1992 as a Professor. In both cases I came here because it was so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  . Unfortunately, this was the best picture I took of him: The curly thing in the ... Mary" and "YMCA"--well, CCR are kind of rooted in American folk rock, I ... developed the technology to control how they explode--maybe you could major in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  says that now she doesn't have to buy it. See? April gives me food, I let her read my books. We have a symbiotic relationship.) In other news, I ... .60, 8.01 open-notes: everything in course 10, 7.06 Mitra said: "I can say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  no poet. In fact, I am a very poor poet. I would never be sharing any ... with notes in black pen ink As I jot thoughts on how we think and feel How bodies and consciousness are in sync. Course 9, I think I may soon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... that it would be a place where my interests in politics and government

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  pizza so I’m going there instead. No interest in volunteering with the Red Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting ... wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... kitchen in the process. Nevertheless, I’m actually incredibly impressed by ... It is Thursday, November 23rd. Or well, it is as I’m writing this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... 't get that in California. I should talk to my manager about the things ... up how long it would take to bike the 20 miles home. 2 hours. That

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who read the blogs. Thinking of all the things I would say post-decision time ... feel like I'm in that situation, I keep running. I tell myself it's all

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... . Allen was my sailing partner in the Sailing PE class that I took during ... correction!) I took Sailing the first quarter and learned how to set up and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  feel like you have succeeded. So how should I be defining success in my ... the right reasons? How do I know I'm not "sheeping" along in life ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020