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  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a Friday night. I was one of two people in the audience. In my defense, I saw ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  . Back in lab, I ran a lot of samples through a gas chromatograph.  Then I ... . Thursday I came in to lab early, because we needed to use a more sensitive ... ’s freeing, but it’s kind of a natural evolution. I am older now, in a city

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with the Spanish department (I wrote a blog post about it—check it out here ... more about IAP Madrid, you should check out the posts that Krystal and I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  essays out loud. In this revision you are looking for what I call emotional ... love knowing that I’ve said something I couldn’t say before and feeling like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote ... ponder what people did before the Interwebs. Walk outside! Chase a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  then, and in that time I have become something of a self ... (I've got a whole playlist dedicated to just that), with a backpack, in a suit, in the rain and snow and shine. I absolutely love biking in

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  me. My freshman spring, I was in a seminar with TWO OTHER STUDENTS, and ... : Receive a degree in Physics, because I love Physics. This is a large part of ... class. 21W.778 Science Journalism I've considered a career in science

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  Madrid, Spain in a computational neuroscience lab. And while I had chosen ... , a lab project that I would only see the results of in 10 years didn ... for a new major. I had always been interested in physics, mostly

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September ... applied math in its own right, as a field I might be interested in.  

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  this IAP. That's right, it's a good old fashioned "here's what I'm doing ... 's semester in checkboxes post-- y'all should check that one out.) Teaching a class. I've written about this before, but yeah I'm teaching a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... minutes! I could write a whole blog entry in those 15 minutes! But then I ... 've mentioned this in passing a few times, but I thought that now we have the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  this time it's pre-emptive! (wait, what? I don't know.) PRE-EMPTIVE A ... should check it out! The details: What: SGIBS, or something? When: Friday ... bit of a look at what I've been doing this semester, and some other

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  , so I had to go to regular check-in and there was a really long line ... I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... on fire on the way there and I got in a car with a stranger just so I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  , you should set up your interview before October 20th. If you are ... your interview before December 10th. From MyMIT, you should print out ... seeing some of you when I’m in Florida later this month and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You ... checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I ... without high-speed internet connections...I realize that it will take a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  that I should write a book telling stories about real scientists and ... coats in a nod to the visual shorthand of what a scientist is, but are ... nine month "dance" with the disease, a month before the release. I like

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  that going in. I share his sentiments, and will add that I also was on a ... did not receive this email, you should check your spam or other filters ... to the Class of 2023. A few years ago, in a post addressed to wait

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  should a residence-based educational experience look like in a world of You ... and still meet the standards of MIT excellence in academics? What should ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  ," I replied, "I think I have a pretty good preparation in physics from ... failed a test before, but this time, I absolutely blew it. Looking back, I ... 're struggling in a course - and, well, I got one in 8.012. At this point, being

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  in six minutes anyway. 9.24 - 9.35 am: i check my email and catch up ... in lecture. 1.57 - 2.54 pm: i have a UROP meeting at 3 in stata, so ... "]my test tomorrow[/annotation]or take a nap. in fact, it turns out i'm too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019