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  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  teammates, I saw the determination etched on their faces. I knew that we all ... answers. Four on one side, four on the other, verifying that all the buzzers worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  that’s all you need.' — paraphrased from the instructor on the first day of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... I harp on in English about topics they’ve only ever found the words

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  , with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... what? An post-mortem of the exam I did not do well on this exam ... mathematical notation I did not do well on this exam because I had four midterms

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  actually interact with based on the classes you take, where you live, and how ... snatch dates on Tinder or join clubs or even just go to a single Queer West ... sweaters that made me…suspicious.** It was nice! For once I went on a date

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for ... isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn ... with both of those happening at once than either of them happening on its

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... free food and interviews. I dubbed the event The Red Carpet Premiere. On ... I cringe at the recollection) I’m going to go graphic on you here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  With Hurricane Wilma bearing down on Florida, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... South Asia on Tuesday, 25th October at 7:30pm by lighting a candle in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AllTrails said that it was sometimes filled up by 7. And even on three ... definitely surpassed Switzerland for me as the most beautiful place on Earth ... perfect, there were cool streams of glacier water to splash on your sweaty

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  "]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... old, and about coming home. I flew back from Europe on February 3rd ... had already been a couple of hours since landing. I said I was on my way

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  believe in me, but i have no idea why on earth they would think those things ... replicate - sure, maybe there was that one time where i worked on a cool ... worked on biotech and crypto and psych. you can literally do anything you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my ... . floor placements came out a few months ago—i was placed on Slugfest, which

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  Airbender with D on Netflix Party, a chrome extension that allows users to ... commentaries on the show, and it just makes watching this amazing show with ... . Within the first fifteen minutes, we were talking about financial planning

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... , used to completing psets by Friday morning and then simply sitting on the ... . **** On one side of MIT lies Boston, a place of opportunity and beautifully

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one ... Orbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from Harvard and MIT to go on a cross-country bike trip (Washington D.C. to San

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  midnight pizzas. It runs 7 days a week on roughly a once-every-20-minutes ... moments to address the elephant on the table - or, as it were, the elephants ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the ... in the UROP program for three years; I currently have authorship on an abstract, authorship on a paper that's in revision, and will have first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... last-minute answers. It's fashionable here to loudly announce your impending doom -- you know, it's bad luck to say good luck on opening night

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at 19) in italics, perspective on life at 22 in normal text. 1. There is ... correlation coefficient on that is about 0.6, and I am not even kidding you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... actually not too heavy on the wallet at all: $15 gas tolls: $3.60 x 2 = 7 ... real fascinating thing was this variation on Zeno's Paradox brought up by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  messages, added some people on LinkedIn, said where I was going. I went on ... programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management ... games,” [annotation note="CJ tried to explain but I refused to follow, on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025