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  and i’d do it again differently

  

  — where i would be right now in my life/my career/my education would be ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  this figure in Paint. How rude of you to suggest that I did. This is ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on ... ? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down ... later. I wasn't sure how I should've counted people drinking from ... Assumption 3. Notable events in chronological order Winnie and I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  others while in college, I’ve often asked myself, “What would high school ... E house (it looks wayyyyy better now!) I was struck by how different my ... alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  got to chat casually with a Paris opera star. I'm in the same picture ... modern and traditional architecture in Paris. For the next two weeks, I ... Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... icing. "I wonder if there's a pink food coloring deficit in the world ... station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of ... in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  GroupMe, could not find out when or how we would be given this opportunity ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... in the how-to-program sequence (after 6.0001, which starts at the very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... my crash and how that might have affected the fact that I escaped mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... fluttering diaphragm in the heart of a speaker. Speaking of molecules, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  things i've been doing in the past week. it's truly felt breathless. i ... what things were like back in the day, the next night i'm in a hallway ... and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , I would be interested in hearing the opinions of women studying ... in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... -taken-shower. I hated this sign. Because in what world would there be a “Young ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  recently.   I came home from college having all these plans for how I would ... story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024