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  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is ... for the following realization to hit.  WAIT THAT IS ACTUALLY THE

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  whole class was just waiting at one point for someone to say they were ... . Also, for those who use MITX, seeing Professor Grimson in person was the ... units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  one person asks a question, there are lots of others out there afraid to ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  it was finally time to pack it up for the flight home, I wished I could ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... ’Hare airport was delayed, and it took over fourteen hours to get to

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius' diary for tidbits of wisdom and then will go off to freestyle rap or ... year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture and personality. On one special night, freshmen visit all 10 halls and then rank where they want to live. Each hall puts together events to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... as a person. We invite professors to ~1 hr interviews (over tea!), that ... , to get to know their personal history and less so their academic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... found too hard. Celeste allows you to play at a pace that's good for you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  biotech companies to MIT campus (possibly for recruiting reasons or close ... gems, Harvard-speak for easy and fun classes. I was able to find some ... ’s even just nice to be able to get out of the MIT STEM bubble for a bit

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was ... a good thing or a bad thing, but I’m going to count this as a win for ... would be too old to be gallivanting through the streets and asking for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  . _____________________________________________________________________________________________ The second person I would love for you all to meet is Qing Li, Class of ... find three programs that allowed me to travel for 1-3 months and I can ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... opportunity to advertise my personal results. My specialty is galaxies, but ... scientific poster labels and official conference badges for him to sign. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  Demotivators for Christmas from someone who knows me far too well, and just finished redecorating my dorm room to constantly remind me of my ... pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  's. Grad school Well, for one, see above. For another, I never wanted to be ... 'm off to UC Berkeley and Stanford for interviews next week, but Adam is ... d'etres. (Oh god, don't know French, don't know where to add the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am ... go to sleep for 45 minutes, there was another knock at my door. It was ... persists for many hours - Inability to keep fluids down - You have a fever or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  groups outside of it to pressure leaders and push for change. I’d recommend ... further, and I’m grateful for that.  After class, we return to the hotel ... This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  . i would learn to love science for science’s sake, not because i needed ... appreciation for memes. increasingly, i just wanted to sleep forever. i was an ... forms than i knew.[/annotation] i wrote and got to direct a vignette for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020