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  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... friends asked me how I was doing: The passage was so narrow that I had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  walked into a door with my nose in a book. How I didn’t break my neck going ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... , everything looks nicer in lowercase. maybe i'll stop capitalizing now, bwahaha

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  in Fall 2007. It certainly showed me how much I liked physics, though ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... original. My second UROP I started in Summer 2006, and it was undeniably the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  , Chris '06 and Wes '07, allow me to test how obnoxious my flash would be ... auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That ... , which just about covered an entire 24x36in cardboard sheet. I filled the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... maniacal fervor. By the time I returned to Random at 8:30 PM, puzzling was in ... ice cream parlor in America and I sprinted away into the snowy night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help. Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep ... showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its warmth. "I finished the GIRS, am in a super romantic relationship with ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  in the beginning and I admittedly would just straight up leave meetings ... eat in a cafe and read and everything would be good. I was half ... wholeheartedly that I would love to work at Microsoft in the future. I think the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... liver tissue than in static 2D tissue culture plates. What I spent a lot

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  about my experiences now and how I won't place so much meaning on them in ... . I never thought I would be thinking about all of this since in high ... school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him ... : "First, I recognize there is a major difference between people I would want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  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 / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  in this picture too but I couldn't find anyone passing by who would lay ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that ... for the portions. Still, how can I resist the prospect of a random three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005