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• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... slowly in my own impotence, but at least I was toasty and well-fed. Here ... schadenfreude. As I exit a building, a discretized gradient of snowfall upon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... people like us have to deal with. I would like to say that I haven’t had to ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom ... they fear that bringing in bigger boats to Berlin and Brandenburg would

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  in an RPG, his charisma would be... cheat code." ***** "I'm convinced ... conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was ... that if I weren't holding a vial full of toxic solvent right now, I would

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  'm writing my thesis, which is in product design. I'm taking 2.72 - Elements of ... interest in music, and 2.674, which is a nanotechnology lab. Oh, and I'm in ... been sleepless nights and what I would imagine has been a mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... lot. To switch gears slightly, I applied to MIT in the regular action

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  longest I had ever been away from home prior to then would be my three week ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  dream in which i miss[annotation note="i'm leaving in eight days, next ... is painted blue; i feel deliciously underwater."]open my eyes[/annotation]in ... in six minutes anyway. 9.24 - 9.35 am: i check my email and catch up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  then turned to page 18 where I saw the title "Seats in Renovated 10 ... !? WHY WOULD YOU PICK THIS CHAIR!? I only gave it 2 stars!!! I thought that ... really would have been the best choice and it was unfairly ousted in favor

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... through all possible scenarios in my head: if it was locked, would I walk away? No. Would I break in? Possibly. Would I knock? Maybe. If it wasn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... accessible fun in the big city, and god, how I love impressionist art. There is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... rhetorical question-response would be: “Isn’t that like asking how I would save

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  coming to MIT. I was invested in writing things that other people would ... One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard ... so hard that I would lie awake in my bed at 1 a.m. the night camp ended ... Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019