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  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... repeats. The Stirling engine cycle can also be used "in reverse", to ... stumbled upon some of their kilns in the Student Center. So, hurray, now I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... slightly uncomfortable again, in a new place where I didn’t know that many ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening to sad music, rolling the guilt i felt around and around in my head

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... useless trivia, then yes, you can. I go nuts over this site. [caption id ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... Every Student Should Know," where reps from a consulting company in DC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... to as I prepared said e-mails. And, guess where those were? Yes, so, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  amazing mother repeated this to me almost every night as she tucked me in. I ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything ... night out in Tallinn, Estonia (where Hardi founded the company, and where

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  organizations where I fit in and can talk about my interests with like ... until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Shuttle/SafeRide Z Center -- the only place in the winter where I've consistently found ... coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... the house more Black Ink in Beacon Hill -- where we found greeting card

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... this campaign, please e-mail me so that I can give you further details ... . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  , but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. i feel like ... AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school ... dancing alone in my room in 30-second spurts whenever i wanted, but now i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... revelation: I pictured myself, 30 years old and alone in a dingy apartment ... hand, life is good. Except for the part where I need to start three

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... I was told. You see, because, data, can be backed up, but 3 years ... couldn't sever these ties that bind. So in the end, life went on. I lived

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  crisis. "I don't have a choice in this; I can't seriously pursue a career ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... rolled around, I didn't tell anyone. In fact, I was in a hotel room ... can only accept so many students in December. The Admissions Office

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and thinking like, "man, this is amazing, I can feel myself getting smarter by ... for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016