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  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... entirely new territory for me.   7.  Once, my upperclassman (21 ... Jake told me it had been on one of the 5.111 lecture slides and i had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me ... , another week of no sleep and all-day events. RIP sleep. RIP functional me ... infamous 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms). I'll let future-me take

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  . And if you are like me, this makes you sad, because you were one of ... Diaz (Summer ‘14) (I read this before I came to MIT and it made me want ... the womanizer’s first person super turned me off, and I just stopped

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  just trust me that it's cool.) Class 4: CUPS!!!! CUPS ARE REALLY ... minutes to do something that took me like 20…) made another great creation ... ). Here is a video of me opening the lip of my cup: Practice 4: Cups

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  finals, this fresh take on recycling rejuvenated me to again want to try ... events fill me with as much school pride as cheering on our sports teams or hearing about a new discovery from one of our labs. It reassures me that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  . I've worked around equations in loops that bring me back to where I ... that don't make me question if a college education is really worth it ... you after my two exams this week. (Wish me luck.)     *CC

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  offers to email intro me to one that he knows. In that email though, he ... and he told me "the Discover Entrepreneurship and Leadership Program ... , and they graciously let me tag along and help out. I helped them set up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  my life will never be the same.” The prospect sent me into shivers and ... path. I’ve gotten several emails this semester asking me, “Should I ... be (trust me, I have approximately 0-1% of my life figured out). But If

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it ... work of those accepted to the Ivy Leagues could help me determine my ... greatest compliment.” It told future me that “it’s best to be excited.” It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  . '13 and two pretty 2017s - Barbie D. '17 and NiBr '17. And me. We left ... much fun, and really made me love being a part of such a cool group of ... me on a mountain! The crazy person leading this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  the way that I interact with the people around me. One of them was the ... , and his approval helped me believe in myself enough to improve. I didn ... you to everyone who applied, and please join me in welcoming our new

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  the course of my life and set me on a path to learn more about ... recognize that while modeling is an important vocation, it is not for me. I ... . So cherish it while you can. For me, I don’t anticipate staying in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  taught me anything it's that supervisions, much like recitations, are my ... me know if there are any topics you want me to cover!

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  call me Krystal “Antelope Legs” Lai. Well, at least they should. While ... salad that she bought at Thaitation for dinner. The puniness just blows me ... anything related to medicine gets me excited. That’s probably why I managed

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  Picture for me, if you will, all your favorite celebrities. These are ... experience and higher-level coursework under their belts. That didn't stop me ... and not the real thing) to share: Which brings me to SpaceX. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the ... made me infinitely grateful to encounter such people in my life, and to ... understanding, peaceful, and fraternal one. But like Adam told me after I thanked

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

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I ... took it like a champ, and picked up an eraser. It made me wonder what I ... . Another status just popped up, a bit more applicable to me in my haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  penetrated into their world. As he told me, the essays his students - who had ... -aunt Gretchen passed away and left me something that changed my life: a library of ... nothing better than that. So let me save you the trouble of buying any of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... ’s leadership style. For me, though, the best part was all the feedback I got ... things at MIT that make me happier than a week of sleep deprivation with

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  wall. But it still wouldn’t prepare me for decorating and ... girly things). It was really this that got me thinking I might want to ... too -- it certainly worked on me. Roommate’s comment after

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011