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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  frustrated with how the whole day had gone, slept earlier than I usually would ... olympiad classes, but I use “swapped” here very loosely. I would still ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  demolished, monkey skeletons were found in the rafters. I got this info from ... head down for about 24 hours of total domination. In the past, when I ... , spectators at the Boston Garden reported seeing leprechauns in the rafters

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... them would return in the fall as freshmen and I was thrilled that I would

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  the best people I've ever met. I'm constantly in awe of how amazing ... MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a ... . When they told me I should start wearing a boot, just in case, I couldn ... weight on the foot for three months. Nevertheless, I was in a boot for two

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... see exactly how what I'm learning might be applied in industry. And ... . Yesterday in German I we learned how to say number above 20, all the way up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  blogging act, I would like to show you a completely new way to look at MIT ... not several thousand feet in the air staring through a camera when I ... ;   This was the first major landmark I recognized once I was in the

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  I had a Subway sandwich for the first time in almost a year and how ... In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... not sure that I would want everything to occur the exact same way that ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be ... various locations around the world"]GTL[/annotation] in Kazakhstan, I ... to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted ... in high school and i want to learn more about how i can get admitted ... , would you guys retract your acceptance letter if I get in?" I'd say that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  years and i would never make much progress on anything in particular and ... in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Rachel, and I love course 3 (materials science).  I love looking at how materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012