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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... you'll fall as soon as you try to get up and it'll hurt, and other times ... at it. *In fact, while Snively opted to play with snow indoors because

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify, and in some cases protect, the voices of these students who have to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... my dresser and handed those to him too. He wrapped his Legos in his

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... way related to differences in math ability, given that college ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  , you get to see the night sky in a different way. Through the telescope ... ) I took Russian I in IAP, and I really loved getting a chance to spend ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... always judge harsher in hindsight, just because it’s easier to; we know how ... guaranteed in life, least of all admission to selective programs. But when I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get ... also pointed out to me in the comments that, upon skimming this blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom ... bandwidth to pay attention to them now. a few days after i turned in my thesis ... appear and never get developed. ideas i had that didn't fit in anywhere, or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically ... [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... HaikuBot. HaikuBot counts the syllables in each message sent to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020