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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... "), but I can already see that I'm not quite the same person I was before ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... working at Capital IQ in NYC this summer. We write software that can be used

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  , then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I ... can run 43 miles per hour, which is much faster than I can pedal my bike ... . And I saw an ostrich across the street from a Chinese restaurant in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  universities in the area added to that experience even more. Not to mention, I ... "   I’ve tried my best in college to speak with as many people who are ... someone for lunch. Once, I was simply sitting in Pavement Coffeehouse

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... , because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I ... world might actually turn out to be okay after all.  In March I go

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  in this honest autobiographical essay. Every story I have ever told has ... -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... statements the same? Nope. So since I'm from the 80s, I can tell you that I ... surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  problems — but in the end, we did end up solving many of them. I can ... stressful problems in the future, I can handle it. As Laura put it in a post ... ) clubs I’ve been a part of (both by being in leadership positions, and in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  . Hoping for favorable Internet conditions in China so I can blog there ... Last year, I spent the entire summer working at ETS in Princeton, New ... languages I’m really interested in are Chinese and French. Since I ultimately

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  my mentor, Ryan Reich. I can't claim that this paper was in any way ... complete undergraduate experience I would look back on most fondly in 20 ... 't want to name anything in particular. But as long as I'm giving advice to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in ... schools can help them change the world. I could have talked for hours on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help ... anxiety seem to really heat up in the applicant pool. So I also try to ... 'll get there. In the meantime, I'm determined not to feel guilty if I need

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... interested in my physics classes, this can be enough. I'll then be free to take ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  I can't do anything on my own. That I've used so many crutches in my ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  whipped up in 20 minutes and got inspired so now i’ve decided to take this ... to say it might have been the best food that i’ve had in a while. we ... than in college. the experience of living [annotation note="10 if you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I ... the best noodles I’ve ever had in my life. It was this little hole in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018