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  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  ; I would probably be crying in a hole right now if you weren’t here ... I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap-as-anything-in ... to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  list now that I've given you the proof of how completely hosed I am ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  's not even talk about how quickly I put a [annotation note="6.009 homies ... and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Earlier this year, I blogged about how we are redesigning ... blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... thought about this, I kept on thinking about how student projects like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... : during my last therapy session, i asked my therapist about how i can go ... 's been so hard to drag myself out of bed. and even when i spend time in bed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... common knowledge that I never thought to wonder about how it came to be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it ... huge difference in the opinion of Next House - which, like I said, I love ... in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with historic architecture and libraries that smelled like old books. I enjoy how ... excellent study environment. I don’t mind working in corporate corners of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I ... --ambitious, since I’m leaving for Ethiopia on August 6th and was in China until June

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In ... which Mr Knechtle would always reply, “Now, what if I slapped this man ... Australian man ever actually said was “I don't need to believe in God to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  while they did it. I'm sure you can see how many problems that would cause ... easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New ... even students walked in on them while they were setting it up? Would they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... for majors, in terms of FOOD - but it's still happening for me; I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... Subject Tests in Math and Science. Q: Should I rush report my scores to ... sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my financial

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  "]two other people,[/annotation] and I’m really excited to see how it’ll turn ...  did manage to fit it in my schedule. I didn’t really read the description that ... projects in the makerspace, and were [annotation note="“I didn’t know you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013