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• 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
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT ... /what class?). For me, this gave me a useful chance to not only explore the ... already knew how to do things when they were easy for me, but I didn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  narrative for a lot of people. This particular event just happened to be more ... stuff I listened to years ago.  I prepped for Thundermother, who were ... "] the crowds for Iron Maiden were too thick to move through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... thankfully had made a suggestion for where to eat, and we were off. Now ... everyone in the car to only listen to "500 miles" by The Proclaimers for the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  without incidence. For the summer I learned to use Octave. Then I finish a ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland, Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  in the house. (For any potential employers reading this, I personally ... for a year and a half spent elsewhere due to the pandemic. For a long ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  (so that we can hold it for freshman to see as they come to our meeting ... can say for certain is that we started this fall semester again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around just enough for my computer to get angry with me for removing hardware

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  for personal expenses, but sometimes some students just want to be a TA ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... tactfully ask him to let her focus on her busy career and academic life for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I ... what I wanted. I stuck with wall paints for the most part. I had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  how having too little work to do is actually bad for my mental health ... parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art ... clothes for my closet/dresser. 37. I hate to sleep. 38. I think I am smart ... is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes ... , effects louder than the cause. it's easy to confuse senioritis for laziness ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  the morning. I was excited to be back since last coming for CES in ... join our road trip adventures for that segment. We went to a Calvin ... couches and air mattresses, and I'm thankful to Arman's family for that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  -tripping to Vermont for a [annotation note="The Great North American Eclipse on ... only concrete path for improvement. If you choose to give en plein air ... ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025