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  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  at the bottom of the spreadsheet called "Mailing Labels." This is a ... You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... sit at the same metaphorical decision-making table in the mind of the

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... , after all, some time away from the internet might be healthy right? At

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... ,”  my coworker coos, recounting his afterwork escapades between sips of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  some guys tend to just fling themselves at MIT (I imagine this kind of ... figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so between our two entries you'll get either ALL of what he says or half of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  . At the end of each week we were all handed blank notecards that we were ... through my entries and by looking at frequency of posting and tone of entry ... five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather ... ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn ... other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I ... of this afternoon and evening sitting around the lounge, eating pizza ... , begun. Some of the freshmen even started doing problem sets. They're so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  this long at MIT without getting some form of disease. I'm sure part of ... Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  expensive models, and at least 3x the cost of my still-pretty-good iPad. Also ... will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... the lack of generosity of some other parts of the plan, like financial

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  concentration, which is public policy. I was slightly skeptical of 17.303 at first ... , one bake sale at a time. Our first bake of the semester is probably ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . Morale was low. At around 3:30 AM I took a 30 minute nap on the floor of ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  As a person who hails from a land devoid of seasons, I consider it my utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my way. Amongst other things, I’ve been taking pictures of the changing

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hello, after six years

  

  things. a lot of people are building things that are even faster at ... i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of people have felt this way, because of the way that many people got very

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the bulk of conversations that I have had about essays, right around this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  married, some factor accounting for the likelihood of getting married at all ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and ... express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the beginning of class. I am not a coffee person. I rarely drink coffee. I do not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006