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  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  language that just doesn’t stick for me. While I’m fairly capable of ... extremely difficult for me. Last spring I took 21F.703, my first language ... gotten me any closer to a functional understanding of the language, more so

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in ... unproductive because I work better in the morning, and sleep is forcing me to not ... while the sun is up. Who’s the primary stakeholder? Me! I need sleep and

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  "yay" around my house after I had opened the web page notifying me that I ... from a firehose. Now that I look back on it, that letter was asking me if ... put together this contraption to make it easier!" Me: :DDDDDD "LIFE

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... against the bus stop, dreadlocks, staring straight at me. There was no doubt in my mind he was talking to me, especially when he said "Yeah, you

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  for the Research Science Institute has been keeping me busy in the ... post. Unfortunately, he beat me to it. He got a pretty good picture of me ... easy for me to see the right person being happy there. But whether they

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  easily understood, as these others. Let me tell you about what match means to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago ... and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  't shouting anything particularly nice at me... It's okay, though; Neuschwanstein was so worth it!! They wouldn't let me take pictures of the inside ... me. The wall, coupled with all the magnificent buildings in Berlin and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  about a different "watsan" (water/sanitation) technology, which keeps me ... she asked me when I had to leave me dorm. I realized I didn't even know ... recruit me." But instead, I've got to search pretty hard. Most places aren

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  9.12 professor Carlos Lois unwittingly helped me discover my ultimate ... it as both an "epic fall" and an "epic fail." He also laughed at me for ... 't judge me. I've been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome for a few

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston ... has made me appreciate my own even more. I used to have the very narrow ... suddenly revealed itself to me by comparison. Of course, there are things I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  below). The Toons’ (I am biased towards them because they let me ... you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in experience. Me: “Kapaku, Robert.” MIT: “OK, here’s your

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... . What a bad idea.) Living in Baker availed me the opportunity to be in ... converge on this uncanny and rewarding friendship that has sustained me

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  (Matt's? Ben's?) that took me aback. It was shortly after CPW, and one of ... of Gender and Race) illustrated this point pretty well for me. The ... , because before college, I had no idea what was going on around me in terms

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  about the process. This really bothered me because I've known him for 20 ... on me this is not the same process that it was just 15 years ago. There ... had a close family friend pull me aside and tell me not to go to Boston

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  Yay, you guys asked me questions! And now, I will try to answer them ... interdisciplinary, which is one reason it appeals to me). I think that at another ... helped me see things more clearly. MIT is unique in the incredible variety

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  immediately lent me her caution cape to wear as a cool accessory. (Thanks ... ...well...anyone else parties. In other news, Dave thanked me for answering his question ... runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  fact, it was one of the major factors of me applying and then later ... spiraled through all the possible dorm options for me, excluding one: Random ... key features that made me choose Random over every other dorm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  breeze felt as the tire swing flew past me. It’s the friend that comforted me as I cried on and on about failing my first class, the desk workers who let me miss shifts when the world felt like it was coming down on my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017