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  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern ... spent frolicking in Indiana. When I think fall, I think piles of crunchy ... rink. I used to take ice skating lessons in Indiana, but all I can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  how I'm always chewing gum. This is because in high school, I was always ... stressing out about the next closest due date, unsure how I was going to ... 'You kill yourself,' so I'll just quote it in the annotations: 'YOU KILL

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... he was saying, and I certainly didn't think about the ways that I would

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  Macbook for a few months, right? How well has that worked out for you? I ... there were seven Apple laptops in the car. I switched to Mac right before ... something that I would not want my mother to read, which is even more awkward

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class ... , it was pretty much anyone's guess as to how the conversation would go ... I imagine the parents would probably tend to disagree with me on that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree ... , but i would try to study with others whenever i wasn't too stressed. i ... 'd done in many months. i wasn't sure what to do—i always prioritized

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a ... looking and play a large part in determining how memorable a visualization ... effectively bias how people interpret the data contained in a graph. We wanted

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  . But I didn't know how to make these, as my education in engineering ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people ... back in college. It was made out of schedule 40 PVC and would shoot a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and ... next CPW would help? =p) and apparently I look a lot taller. 10. "Wow, you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... content during the psets, which would have gone more smoothly if I did the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  out exactly how it was intended. In the spirit of most hacks, though, it ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day ... incompetent. # Sign-ins should not be seen by the general public. Sign-ins

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the ... 't necessarily understand -- I mean, really, how superficial is that? I think what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1 ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... , so I looked up that little fact and wrote it in my planner. June 6th

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be ... water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  , by default, are placed in RBA. (Ask me how I know.) And even though RBA ... would be stuck in it, especially since I didn't get to go to my CPW and ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... all-time low (senior house and its aftermath). In the end, I got a C in ... put in enough effort to where I felt a lot better with algorithmic

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  I turned it in, the full implications of this simple point would ... one of the topics in the class I found most exciting - one about which I ... , State, and Utopia in 1974. This book would capture the public imagination

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  friend Evelyn and me decided that we would test how the external ... turn! So this semester, I took Quantitative Physiology I: Cells and ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005