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• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from ... expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  in an amazing urban environment (aka Cambridge/Boston) where there ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  you can’t tell where it starts and where it ends, and, besides, I ... note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the ... [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  scientific ingenuity or whatever; you can't pulverize a chunk of snow in your ... solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of ... of Random Hall, I can list everything I own that interacts with photons

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  Orientation has begun. Convocation starts in less than an hour, where ... your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed ... them. I can't encourage you enough to find programs, positions, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... , especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group ... in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... entire AoPS crew are doing. I hope that if you're interested in and excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... further.  Many many years later, I understand [annotation note="in case it ... , I did it partially for the bit where two other performers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  Engineers]. I loved throwing tea parties in my fraternity, where we would all ... in Chamber Music Society where I play in a string quartet, and I also ... : Founder MIT life outside Tea with Teachers: I graduate in 2017 with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight ... one class. Otherwise I’d throw in 6.002/6.007, 6.152, 6.828, and 6 ... (a skill which i foolishly thought I possessed in great abundance prior

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I ... called to do so as brothers and sisters of this world and I hope that in ... , especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... headed off to Urgent Care, where - at this point, I was pretty woozy, but I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... bit too attractive!" (Darn right.) "Is (girl's name I can't quite ... no poet. In fact, I am a very poor poet. I would never be sharing any

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow ... participating in a pre-orientation program. I did the Freshman Leadership Program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  , where he continues to study vision. This evening I Facebook chatted ... video. I did and they liked it so they flew me out to film! I can only ... do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... , where Crucial Admissions Business is voted upon. I also learned a bit more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the ... dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE ... trenches in it. That's OSG, a place where the barriers behind which you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... whatever. Dancing, singing, playing games. In a way, it's no surprise that I ... of me that honestly regrets not pursuing media earlier in life. Had I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021