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• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground ... certainly true. I'm not personally on that particular mailing list, but I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  Bollywood-radio channel on my way to class. Even though I was born and raised ... such a way that we were closely tied to our heritage. Now that I live on ... trucks like this one are common on the road pedestrians, street traffic

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... people on various occasions. I inform myself of this fact quite frequently ... myself up-to-date on goings-on outside the world of MIT - What? The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... a new class and being sent off on an entirely new trajectory because

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  analysis, I discovered that I sleep more on the weekends than I do on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  makes! & Finally, a search for “IAP” on the blogs homepage will pull ... .E. ice-skating @ 10 AM on MTWR - I’ve been ice skating before, but am no where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  instances of police brutality and just blatant racism being caught on camera ... call out people on their behavior or on something I don't like. I asked ... people don't like. And that's just how we are." She then went on to tell

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  : Some people, like Dave (who commented on my last entry) work best under

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  judgement about admitting them or rejecting them? Hide their AP's on the ... . What makes me sad is when students focus on their studies to the ... student say something like, "Well, I'm cutting back on that to focus on more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  makes me angry because adults will be like yOu wOn'T cArE aBoUt tHis iN a ... about my experiences now and how I won't place so much meaning on them in ... chatted every other week. But, as the years went on, the frequency of our

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  "His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There's vomit on ... -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags ... Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... had discussed me at the grading session, I arranged to meet with him on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other ... of reading; I was eighteen months old and finally tackled the words on ... -- took on a new hobby that bore some promise. Before school was out in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The ... event or club."]Dormspam.[/annotation] Never forget to BCC! Paint (on) a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  person after all. Now, there are much simpler things on my mind, like ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone. Yesterday, I couldn't have been more ecstatic about a 63 on my 3.091 midterm

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

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  are complex and take at least 15 minutes to put on fully. thankfully, me ... "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events for our current members and alumni. the chaos started on Thursday, where

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  finds me in the lounge of Putz, legs curled below me on the big red sofa ... balancing on someone’s shoulders to tie the knots. A course 6 sophomore ... we didn’t have time to walk down the wrong basement hallway on the way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant ... creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  journal. The author, in fact, is Albert Einstein, and the paper is “On the ... your manuscript, “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies”, we encourage ... these comments as a negative judgment of your scientific abilities; on the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  'll elaborate on in a minute) but there are some really cool things as well. Each ... on this in just a minute... Seal Shank The seal shank features the ... birthstone with my high school's name winding around it on the front, my class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007