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• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  night. This was a lot of firsts for me: first time driving on a long trip ... listened to me talk about it, to the club prez who walked me through the ... with me to pick it up!!! It was, uh, not an unharrowing experience. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  really been bothering me ever since I have been home - that is, creativity ... , but I am aware that the information MIT has provided me with has started ... all this because learning about this open bio space took me back to my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  monocase.' (i just made this word up on the spot so pls don't hurt me) there ... to write in for the blogs, since it comes most naturally to me. i ... influenced my mit 'writing block' and helped deter me from producing anything

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  me while I was shivering under the frigid water in my new apartment ... ’d already said goodbye to friends—MIT has always been special to me because of ... reflect on whether MIT was the right fit for me, and why. And maybe it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  know many across the world…” “...and you can quote me on that.” (Bonus ... out with us for three hours every Friday afternoon! So let me reiterate ... the P versus NP Millenium Problem told me about the bet for an ounce of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  activities period in January. This pushed me over from spending too much time being social to me never leaving the library/my room in order to study ... you get off you are done, and for me that was a problem and honestly

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  you are like me, you never ever thought ever that you would ever join ... college. If you are like me, then you thought “greek life” had a bad ... , if you told me that I would join a sorority in college, I would laugh

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... , I see. Psh, stop wasting your time on that stupid game. Let me tell ... -- you'll thank me in 2016 :) So what was I going to say? Oh, you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... externship catalog one night, one position jumped out at me. It was with Plume

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  relationship with her father. Both emotionally wrecked me in the best of ways and made me reflect on the stories I want to tell someday. Powerful theatre ... video production or something else, is a good path for me right now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  studying for the MCAT, the next great obstacle between me and medical school ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... , even just for a little bit – that calms me down. Just for fun, I’ve also

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to the discussions around me. Everyone else seemed to be teaching ... and fired question after question, corrected me with small

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  ! She comes out and treats me to a pastry and coffee because that's just ... remember how this came up, but she takes out a notebook and makes me sign an agreement that makes me promise that she'll be the one to pick out my wedding

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  million to me) and I loved them all and walked around feeling fireworks all ... couple of meltdowns. I counted on my roommates to help me chill out. I made ... prescriptions. "Tell me your problems and your life, and I'll give you a poem to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  letting me use your beautiful masterpieces! After munching on cider donuts ... around me, I have not once felt unwelcome. I’m not saying I don’t miss my ... didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.” The only condition ... who made Talking Shoe, for responding to my emails and giving me some

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the ... purpose is entirely unknown to me. Neither of my parents had an explanation ... me into my chair. I studied for ten minutes, made some tea, looked out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... in a lot of pain, but she liked talking to me and I liked talking to ... school.  All day people were congratulating me, and I thought it was about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see ... ? Of having parents who didn't disinherit me but instead sighed and said "do it if you must?" Of having had that sense of must kindled inside me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  the next bus stop. “There’s our bus.” “You’re kidding me.” “Nope.” It ... in the back row, including me and Cory. It was stuffy, hot, and too ... radiates energy and optimism. Coming home, for me, is hiking, canoeing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012