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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... occupied by tasks of these sorts, so that's good. I haven’t blogged in ... . This was extra funny because I was in the UK and was made fun of all day

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the ... I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... Cognitive Sciences; specifically, he was interested in the neural basis of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  a real meal in days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  the Charles River, recently covered in snow, I can't help but feel ... 's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of events in past semesters have been tempered by the ongoing gloom of our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  people in general. I’m not sure how to avoid this flavor of ire. I’m not ... Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  baddest guy in the college communications business. Of all the pictures I ... quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton ... last time I used it) but, thanks in part to the Undergraduate Association, MIT now gets Comedy Central! Do you know what that means? I can watch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  wasn’t in the mood for another set of bad news. “No rejection today,” I ... inconvenient time in my life - I was right in the last week of my internship ... UROP. I had in the back of my mind, a reminder to make the poster for my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP ... same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... : design and manufacture many many yo-yos. We're in groups of 3-6, and we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  going on that are pretty exciting, and for all of you '09s reading this, I encourage you to participate in all of it as Jessie and Mollie have both also said. I can say this from experience. It's a lot of fun; don't miss out.

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  about various MIT policies and policy changes - I put some of this in, but ... "vacuum" nature of MIT that he alluded to in his entry. Interestingly, I ... This entry is kind of inspired by an entry that Anthony wrote. Yes, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... . she condemned and mourned the deaths of the five police officers in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  change of major form. I declared a minor in computer science to put my ... change of major form cleared. I built an RC aircraft and made friends in my ... semester. I am now in the unenviable position of being a junior in sophomore

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  . Chemistry (5.111) In the last two weeks of summer break, I decided last ... these graduation requirements was “But I’ve got a ton of AP credit…won’t I ... AP credit—the worst out of any school I researched when applying. If

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  for a full recovery. Since then, I have been pitching in where I can ... of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... presentation slides. I’m so proud of my teammates and grateful for their kindness

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  in every math class I took. Although my high school was incredibly ... increasingly became one of few Black/Puerto Rican students in those classes ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  think I've made a lot of steps in the right direction and I'm really proud ... having to reprogram all of that, and in these past four months, I think I ... what home is to me in such a short amount of time. When I think of home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... requirement was, in fact, one of the top reasons I didn't comMIT till late April ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  not enough for you I have five sessions of job interviews in the next ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together, I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012