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• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events ... me and my new friends caffeinated. It seemed like West Campus smelled ... classmates. That’s what really showed me that I can see myself at MIT for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  cause I will not talk to you if you are not holding a muffin for me.). It ... pset this year took me about 3 hours to do while the longer ones have been known to take me some 10-15 hours of being stupid and feeling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree Squalor was, and why it was so funny. Zach gladly obliged and showed me a ... reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  help me keep everything in perspective about my work, and they're always ... 'll make sure to devote a longer blog entry to this in the near future. Given ... adjustment period, but for me, I personally feel very welcome by this community

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  kinda wrote its own punchline, they very nearly get Gigli before asking me ... these Oreos to people as they walk by. Amanda '08 asked me whose they were ... even asking me if they're free while telling his friends a story about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously ... and started to explain to the girl behind me what the picture would be ... you stand near the 50 and look slightly northeast, you can see Kresge

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... me (with my hair down - it's usually in a ponytail). I've decided that there's some rule that every picture taken of me is fated to look

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  Interstate 93, the sounds of honks and engines give me hope that home is near ... mostly snow, in fact nearly 3 inches, for the first half of the walk. Three, even if it did not snow on the day of, the temperature will still be near

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  asking this, because work has never scared me off before, but sometimes it ... week and have a three- to four-course dinner cooked for me all other ... Square (though this takes longer) or to the food trucks, which park near

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  place (that's apparently equally good for dinner) over near Kendall Square ... IAP is perfect- 2 weeks in December wouldn't be nearly enough to unwind ... again. And if you just want to work on a UROP, like me, you can, without

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  , nearly four years later, for me to forgive him for it. It was the first ... , come visit me. They're probably the closest people I had to best friends ... school, I felt like Kenneth took care of me and really looked after me. We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  that Prof. McGreevy has a grudge against me, but I was nearly bludgeoned ... commercialism; namely, Valentine's Day celebrations. 2. Nobody at MIT hates me ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge ... thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... American Southwest. I was born four years later near the Arizona

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with ... . I found out later that my mom, after waiting half an hour for me to ... for a few seconds, as if to convince me it was real, and not a spark of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... label, only wee freshman me had wished it were otherwise. He was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  morning, I printed out ten or so resumes to bring to the fair with me ... experience and near empty resume. I spent the night emailing the companies I ... chemical engineering company that had replied to me that wanted a follow up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  -track during Independent Activities Period (IAP) and nearly NR-ed (no ... me! I was left scrambling at the last minute to try and get into a ... darting from office door to office door trying to get someone to make me a

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ... that shrouds me—am i doing the right by trading new endeavors and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone ... my Thursdays are nowhere near as stressful as they might have been one year prior. If you were like me last year, I understand. I get that it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... ?” Me: Nope! Too hosed. BPAFOSIPIDC (frowning): I'm afraid I have to ask if you have any other identification. Me: Nope! Should I go back to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009