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  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... . "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out ... reentry. That's when I realized that although I was in the Museum I wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

   three storeys high. Imagine that: three storeys. And the deadline was in a couple ...  scary. And maybe another reason is that trying new things out, in general, is ... ? What if I make a mistake? I don’t know why I tried doing it anyway. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two ... " is, as Dan noted, "a sound mind in a sound body". I did understand what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  sophomore year to realize that I'm a woman in STEM. When I realized this ... MITMo last year and I love this post so definitely give that a read. This ... want to say is that the memories I discuss are simply the ones that have

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I ... of them were intriguing in their own way, only a few were classes that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... others, but I now know that there is something for me to look forward to in ... alone in a lot of the feelings of anxiety and depression that I have dealt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  foof reading a book, I could do that too without any judgement. There ... opinions and a willingness to talk about them. -- I also think it is the most ... -being. But this is something that you learn to deal with in any dorm, and also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  outdoorsy. She talks about science in the same casual way that I do, albeit ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... research. Some promised that every student could do research at least once in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  there is a lot of truth in that. Fundamentally an admissions process is ... even when you know that what you see is false. I was so struck by the analogy that I coined a term for our experience: the illusion of validity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was ... Hallo everybody. As it turns out, video editing is a very time ... . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  fall, I'm again doing research, this time as a "research assistant" in a ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... there that I learned what an action potential was. I also dissected a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... -ops"]collectives[/annotation], and it requires thinking about the humanities in a way that I've never really considered before. I'm in a group called CarePod, which is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  dinners in the fall. Also, this is an old draft. I can now attest that ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... I live, we’re in a bubble. On those days, I wonder about all the cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  feel like I learned a lot that summer in the lab. One advantage of going ... investigators at each school that I might like to do my thesis under. I did a lot ... somemore! Oh, that's so frustrating. I hate it when I do things in the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and ... ) Watch the sunset on a boat in Boston Harbor 18) Retook a class I ... without carving a pumpkin? I don't know either.) 31) Competed in and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  skates. A career in skating is short-lived. I want to make the most of it ... training on my own is that I get to form my own schedule. I'm not tied to a 5 ... , that pursuing skating and MIT meant I would be subpar in both, not able

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about ... ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the ... I’m doing in the skills I applied on any given day — I don’t feel like I get that a lot elsewhere and it really helps! 2. Engineering

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... because I like having a bit more flexibility, but when we do make things in ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple ... cello section social. Then, I let the footage remain in my FlipCam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012