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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  -Americans, but they spoke to their families in Chinese on the phone. I would just ... and family in East Asia. I can't express enough how valuable this ... scared I would lose after leaving MIT. Will teaching and traveling in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In ... would like to attend in a couple of months. 2. Schedule your MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  rod, I knew in my gut that it would not work, and I should not say yes ... I do not know if I have mentioned this on the blogs or in public, ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  information. With two months to go, I asked her how she would define the project ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  pursue a field that I'm interested in to mastery. I would, however, need to ... work in my lab as a full time employee, and I guess I'll see how much I ... within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office ... impressive) feat. I took ownership and pride in this work, a very, very toned ... , hey, I produced that! With some help, but yeah that was me! And then in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  - thanks! Now I can link my parents here so they can stop asking me how the ... June) based on i3 videos/dorm websites and/or previous visits alone ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... it. if i already know what i want, and believe in it hard enough, is ... people would think. i worry too much about whether my decision to choose X

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons ... in Indiana that we got from our neighbors and I adored it so…until it ... ="94970" /] I made a proposal at the last house meeting to buy a drum set for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  would do anything to change that. to just be better.  I don’t know how to ... ; i look smaller in all the mirrors  that make you better    if ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  the best example of this would be my first few days in my Chinese I ... honest, I could try to write about everything that has happened in this last week or so since I have arrived at MIT, but that would most likely

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  always late for because i would tend to underestimate how long the walk is ... a week for various things i was involved in, and a bike would've saved ... worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  this hiatus; I can't express enough how much I love being part of this community. Also Petey would never fire a blogger. I think."]I periodically thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  ), where I am working in the National Human Genome Research Institute. More ... (usually in the order of coffee, Coke, coffee, water, Coke). Usually I worry ... I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  websites that I check every day. They are, in no particular order, xkcd ... I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... Identity. At first I didn't know how to take the news. This placement was ... really make me confident in knowing that he'll be there whenever I have a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  because I could. I would get things done, I'd just be sure to calculate how ... would have sprinkled holy water on it if I had access to some. If someone ... Institute," I must admit that I would have thought to try that. So after I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012