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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  demonstrations. I didn’t want to associate with individuals who get exercised ... might get to know them better.” Emerge aims to empower these girls ... : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  get faster, so I can get to the fun part of actually shaping the vessel ... pull the walls, I was struggling to get the clay up from the skirt of the ... , and glazed our pieces. They actually get fired twice: first, to go from

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  with social media themselves knows exactly how to get off every time they ... in my opinion a bit absurd it is okay to make mistakes like getting ... looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box ... , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... writing and being nice to people that I don't know). I don't even get carded ... decided to keep it for this month. Except for getting food caught in it, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... out to amazing music. I ate free food. I got Chris M. to autograph my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  profoundly grateful that this field of study even exists, that i get to do work ... that i get to be here, doing the things i’m doing. sometimes there are ... which finding and committing yourself to work you love is like romantic

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  've ever been, and I'm sure they'll only get harder. :( But I got to spend ... this fall. I was lucky enough to get an offer from a company called ... and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get ... terms of where I'd get the most free stuff. This turned out to be an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  decision. let's get to why dating an upperclassman early into freshman year ... . I want them to thrive at MIT, not start dating someone who's getting ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... -problem-making-person did not plan for, or if no checking-person is able to get the right ... the Big Game have made me so used to very-well-made problems that I get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  she'll be able to hear from us before it gets to the picket line point ... morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  tasks and caught up on other things I've been meaning to get around to ... to get past my driver's exam tomorrow--fingers crossed on the parallel ... searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the ... , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  purpose of making a profit and getting drugs that will make it to patients ... , and you get to decide what that lab works on. However, in order to do ... -Doctoral students that all want this position. So, in order to get this position you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like ... this one, get back to dancing a lot, and more. I've already started on ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... through the rain parallel to an indoor hallway I could have used to keep nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011