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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... are some funny stories in there.) One of the 3 million reasons I love ... I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... torrent of science that is present everyday. =D --- In other news, I'm a ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I ... too. I won't divide you up into groups; after all, we're all part of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite ... .T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... so I've omitted it). Master of what? Doesn't matter, as long as said ... life of ridicule and belittlement, but I could be wrong. Anywho, the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  frolic in the joys of psetting while I can, eh? p^3.s. don't worry, despite ... be rewarding in other ways, too; I've met some of my closest friends ... MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... causes where I can make a difference. While in grad school at UD I had the ... power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  “I can count the number of assignments I have left on my fingers.” The ... floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... tree). In Fresno, California, most of the time you can’t even see the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to ... . I didn't know how to do any of it. The next day in class we got them ... semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  taking better care of myself. I can’t control the unexpected things in ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... -question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  I sat down to have my 3 hours of lecture spat at me right in a row ... College, I am one of 17 math majors (mathmos as the natives say) who is ... examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... have played a role in some of these things, it isn't the whole story. I ... :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about ... can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort ... students succeed even after years of being told that they can't, and I want ... life, and when I try to think of my future in a way that doesn't involve

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  the world can be enticing. So, in the true fashion of MIT students, I ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be ... British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  weeks. If I can summarize this section in one sentence it would be the ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better ... incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... people in offices I didn’t know existed. MIT has offices full of people who ... -2 and 4-B, but I'm also interested in a bunch of classes in courses 2, 11

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025