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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  not a great deal of fun*)... how's life in your corner of the world ... 'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  tendencies – liking to play a role in deciding how things progress, and are run ... : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  find most comforting through all of this is that in talking to a range of ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  guy someone is dating, how much work someone has. I think that's what I ... : there is no such thing as magic This is a sentiment expressed in both my ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a ... there are so many of you young 'uns coming in. This place is a magical ... regale you with tales about how 8.01 was "a lot more hardcore, back in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college ... experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  you don’t like free food, you’ll love it here, too – there is also a lot ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... '22, were teaching How to Stay Awake in a Classical Music Concert. For ... now, I recognize that this is a temporary feeling, and in a few weeks I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ) ... ... and when I’m alone in some other city on a work trip (which is where I ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... luck! Hi guys, Early action decisions are out in less than a week. And ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  , which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard ... a very long written document as well as orally in front of a group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  only changed in 2019.']as GRTs,[/annotation] the GRA is a graduate ... with a degree in math, and is now a self-employed software engineer. He ... , Massachusetts. He graduated in electrical engineering and did a master's. He is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  rough patches Chris on time management Sam on how MIT's difficulty is a ... of your four years Keri on how having too many extracurriculars is ... , that's a tough one. But we've also written a lot about figuring out how

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how ... , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  interim at looked at another article in progress. Okay, this is still a long ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper ... -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... you got in, and you aren’t a worthless plebian just because you didn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... , someone who knows their stuff, but not in a way that when you ask how you ... -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  always believe in you…and take a minute to think about how much effort and ... ’s try this a different way.” I pulled out three coins. “How many is this ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  -related life. However, my opinion surrounding these bridges in Boston is much ... the smoot is as follows: in 1958, Oliver Smoot, a fledgeling fraternity ... even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020