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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  some friends who study in my country's universities and it seems a common ... Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of ... our dorms and watched my roommate smash random electronics on the ... seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants ... electricity and the job can be better accomplished by hand washing ... cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  upperclassmen as well. Over the last week and a half the blogger committee - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  in three different states and twice as many towns. I've lived in ... , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and ... I will say that I believe politics are relevant, and in my mission to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... flatbread, and it comes topped with three tons of cabbage and tomatoes and cucumbers and yogurt sauce. There approximately two döner stands on every city

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  name, home state, and interested courses/majors every time you met ... have an idea of what my day’s schedule looks like…and if you ... , you know that didn’t work out. The Icebreaker and CPW Festival

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT ... write about something that gives a good sense of who I am and what I value

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  to grit my teeth and power through, forcing myself into a state of ... at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store"]eduroam[/annotation] is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  take a gap year, how the first week went, and what my plans are for the next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  runs the university laptop loaner program, and asked if I could get a ... , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit ... pointed out my items and asked if I could have my seat back, and he

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  short story for 21w.755, reading and writing short stories, entirely ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  men’s basketball game. Harvard is an NCAA Division I program and we are ... than any other DIII university. We call ourselves the Engineers. Our ... students should be more focused on activities like winning Nobel prizes and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  'm taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I've never cared about a class ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going ... and lay in the grass between the chapel and the student center and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  and attending entirely different high schools and universities, with ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... their gate got moved? It was pretty dramatic; employees and passengers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Happy Holidays everyone! I can't believe another semester's done and ... "upperclassman" and developing a programmed rhythm for handling a semester, all the ... to just LET. LOOSE. and jump on everything not class related. I'm not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... ++, Arduino electronics & programming, and survey design + human

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... [annotation note="blogger crossover!!"]Kano[/annotation] and another of my ... old, and about coming home. I flew back from Europe on February 3rd

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023