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  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... actually have to think outside the box and applying what you learned in ... As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know ... had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... we walk to chipotle so alan could get lunch. chipotle was full, so we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  —most students choose to brush up on their culinary skills or enroll in a lower ... aimed to capture the central role that food has in our lives and ... , issue here. In transitioning from a cookbook to a magazine, we still

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Muthukrishna, just graduated and is off to get his PhD. He helped catch me up to ... phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  to do is set up some positive controls and put it in the plate reader ... home, i lose all motivation to do any work whatsoever and i just lie in bed, exhausted. i get myself up around 9 pm to shower. around 11:30 pm

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... generally not the variety of nerd that seems to stick in society's collective ... found a tenor saxophone on Ebay, so Angela decided to get an accordion

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker ... spend a few days holed up in that AirBnB and didn't get out quite as much

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done ... interested in the answers to some of them. That's okay - they're my questions

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really ... four years have meant. The writer in me feels like there's so much to

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

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  opportunities to get hands on rather than just brainstorm ideas. Fireflies, the ... felt incredibly motivated to solve the problems in a smarter way ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in ... show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... now at the point in the year where we need to put in lots and lots of time to get stuff done. I'm just glad I'm a freshman- I feel no pressure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge ... lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  the skies in Malaysia. It was hard to see the Kuala Lumpur (KL) skyline, including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get ... Malaysia, it was off to Hong Kong. Here's me atop the Peak in Hong Kong, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face ... freaked out. Honestly, getting B in that class was just about as exciting

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007