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  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  gritty I: am a blunt and hard to get along with individual get hangry pretty easily So, I guess I combine all of these together to get: Hi! My ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  !"]Red Line.[/annotation] If you go, try to get there more than 15 minutes early ... since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  you just as much as any lecture will, and I really use this time to get ... After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors ... getting through a little bit of my "Things To Do Before I Graduate" list

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to ... finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... college's sister's uncle's first wife's second marriage, but to people I ... in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  of times just to see how they were doing. They seemed to be getting ... managed to get a picture of the entire display, check it out. But wait there's more! This year I'm a mentor/videographer for 2.00b so I get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  about you and you get to teach them about what makes you different and ... really good time to get in touch with your EC to set up an interview. The ... application. So...consider this my gentle nudge to get in touch with your EC and

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

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The ... of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... as you go, what could be better? Once/if you get to the finish, which

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... once class was over. ;) See? You can get to know your TAs this well here ... to those deferred, you've got a good chance of getting in later!

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with ... very confident and has to act like a different person to try to get ... change. I had to find something to get out of the house, and not be locked

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  get from my Irish folklore class to a MechE class at MIT. I’m going to ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment"]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me ... protein bar for breakfast, getting to the testing room super early, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... and it's snowed 15 inches. Oops. I'm trying to decide if I want to venture outside to go to the "happy hour" with grad students from 5-7, or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really ... and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get ... starting to get worn out. But yes love the MSA fam IHTFP Part One: I got

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  can get to having an all-encompassing definition of the basic unit of ... biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this guest lecture actually be about? Brief sidebar here to mention that it is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019