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  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a ... his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in ... meaning, so you are NOT ALONE in your endeavors to write great things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... ordinary people who were either lucky enough to get in. Oh wait... to which ... Mechanical Engineering and only open to students in that major (likewise with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story ... behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  company back home in Houston to get experience, get paid, and get by without ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . See, I'm starting to get interview invites from some of the graduate ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your dorm or libraries all weekend. In my opinion though, there’s more to life ... stopped in places to get my mom and I a shirt, and I bought the mug feautred

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... without me in it. I don’t want to get left behind because everyone else has ... truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... there to do in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Well, not too much ... went to the only Starbucks in a 10 mile radius (formerly the greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ... tunes to get the mind flowing. I prefer to use themostdangerouswritingapp

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons ... Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note ... applicants -- in fact, we think it took us longer than it ever has before to ... to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  require a deposit to secure your spot. If you get into MIT later in May, and ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the ... make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over ... flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot ... ). And it took under 10 minutes to get there. It takes less time to get ice ... OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... 'm trying to get over this feeling). The feeling that I shouldn't blog until ... best to get you psyched about MIT. But anxiety runs high, as you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  year-round? Seriously? But when do you get to wear tank tops and skirts?) So if you come to MIT next year or in the next few years, your TA might ... in the 70s, so we proceeded to have a lovely chat about MIT housing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006