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  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and ... 10, 2008 The next morning, I head in to the office to run a couple of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the ... and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... least I was in good company. The next morning, I felt oddly sympathetic ... A. I think this calls for additional punctuation marks!!! In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  after she told me this. In many ways, I can see how similar my mom and I ... In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  to make us hate each other. I hope that everyone in America can ... , and there's nothing I can do..." An email was sent out this morning ... while reading the other column: I hope the American people can be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time, everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I ... since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking ... students and faculty in various departments, and I've decided that my best

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  that I can continue to say that I’m in the place that I am because, many ... past Nisha, and to all of you, that I can, in fact, continue to say that. ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6 ... MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  , etc) at my own pace. In the fall, I started kindergarten. Summers 4 ... to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  olympiads about which I can write in my app and which were in no way less ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... won't be in place until 2006 at the earliest. "Also I know you stated

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... merge sorts and Dijkstra’s shortest path. I fluctuate in this class from

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the ... [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... grateful i am to have found a family in them [caption id="attachment_49048

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  the hardest I've ever worked in a long, long time, but I'm really proud ... Sulmona, a really tasty brunch spot in Central. After Sulmona, I headed to ... for my CMS.300 paper. In terms of how I found sources, I spent a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a ... 're probably trying to jam it in. Slide it in." "I AM sliding it!" "Do you see

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  where I can predict what they’ll say next because we talk literally ... , as i have done, as i can, as i shouldn't, etc."]“as you should,”[/annotation] etc. in every sentence, there are two other types of common phrases I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... was. Note my amused face in this picture.  Or it can be bad when ... . After all, there are only so many days I can get a less than optimal

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  people, each imparting their tidbits of knowledge and advice. I was in your ... . So why, oh why, did I choose MIT? First of all, I lived in Boston for two summers (I'm originally from Maryland) while I was in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  space as grad students. The thing is, UROPs can be anything, really. I ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is ... . Matt suggested that I dress up as an iPod, which was cool in a way, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... question in the space of the question I had left and I went ahead that way. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006