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  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... hard, but at the same time, I'm real proud of him." ... Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... strangest dream of my life. Many will argue it was a nightmare. All of my ... as just a lot of math, and not the friendly kind. Interestingly enough

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into ... less “great unknown” to distract me than at the start of the year. The ... I’ve been reminded of how much I love home. But at least I’m headed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... 've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in Berlin, teaching at a Deutsche Bahn summer school program. It was just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... . I leave Boston at 8 AM Eastern. I arrive at SFO, run into several of my fellow recruits (most of us have interviewed at other programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... -inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  knicknacks, and a copy of Zac Gorman's new comic Costume Quest: Invasion of the ... Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking ... lectures feeling a lot better about the difficulty of classes at MIT - they ... one with you - with full knowledge of the fact that I'll probably never

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  my daily nonantics. Speaking of boring, I had a four-hour shift at ... way up at the top of this post.) Anyway, a long-ish time ago in a land ... behind. I've had a multitude of amazing opportunities at MIT, and I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer ... less than a normal semester... read more at http://web.mit.edu/housing/undergrad/summer.html. Some folks choose to spend summers at fraternity or sorority houses

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  at MIT. He is studying asteroids in the main belt of the Solar System ... Astronomy at the Univeristy of Hawaii, but he also has a faculty advisor in ... have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  complex story arcs and character development, and at the end of its 74 ... at young boys"]shounen[/annotation] and ends in a pit of darkness. It ... At long last...the [annotation note="anime/manga/general Japanese

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new ... -tier research mentors and an exceptional peer group. MIT PRIMES and Art of Problem

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  emotions at the time. The first day of snow finally came during Thanksgiving ... fell I finally felt at home again, with all the memories of building ... -needed peace of mind. This year, the snow has come at a much more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms, whip out our new planners and notebooks and folders. It's a new academic

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... of my classes. What went really badly? I was very terrible at keeping

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022