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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  can make one's day in spite of it all. The snow is back! What joy. ... , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... mechanical engineering class. So while I can't really provide a success

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  engaged in some sort of war. Hey all, sorry about the relative dearth of ... preventing the theft of my laptop, and to all of the lovely prefrosh I had a chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  a trip to Boston. I had about thirty seconds of, wow, you can't even ... of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... I don’t have to navigate the crush of people during passing time I also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... balance of the camera was all whack. I'd lived in the shadow of Yale ... around and not the gold. I took some time off in the middle of the day to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  insecurity. I remember sitting in Alan's office (surrounded by empty cans of ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... receive any exam booklets." Prof. Guth smiled and asked whether I was in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to ... MIT vary quite a bit in the level of people who play them. In some ... recruitment form so the coach of your sport is aware of your interest in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too ... of my week.  Completing those psets will not make me satisfied. I will bask in exhausted we-did-it glory the night of, when a thing is not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In ... went out to Killian Court in front of the Great Dome. I ended up lying

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  any idea what I was talking about. Actually, I didn't tell them, out of embarrassment. "Oh, yeah, there's this gay rugby club in Boston that Ruth and I ... to Niagara Falls this weekend." Yeah, so I wouldn't say that in public

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in ... the announcement of a new iPhone, but then I thought, maybe not everyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... the same time, seeing that I'm in withdrawal of learning how to do ... option is to order in every night (I actually tried this) Monday: Papa

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my ... intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  've talked a lot about the nature of choice in my posts. I think the structure ... first → "Oof, I don't think I can come" → Do some TA work Go to sleep ... until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  being in California means that I needed to move, so I’ve moved out of the ... I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it ... ’m Mollie! I’m one of the five or six(?) original bloggers, and I was the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... house us in a place where we can be inspired and taught By one another ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  through all 660+ events. I recommend getting an idea now of what all you ... , Johnson. This is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable events of CPW ... free swag and begging for your email address. You can get a sense of what

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I ... :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019