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  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter ... Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, I wrote problems for our National Olympiad in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... what?" "I dunno, seven.. meaningful things." With that helpful advice in ... decided that I would eat seven different meals at seven new and different

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... . Having you in the class would have made it no less perfect. But the numbers

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in ... 's really funny is that in high school, I actually didn't like physics that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right, I actually ran out in front of my entire dorm and started dancing ... conga line that tricked me by disbanding right as I was in the middle of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... m. After moving on campus recently and seeing people in 3D, I'm hoping ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  looks like it would be berry-flavored! At least two people I know have ... drinking blood would be like… RPMI [annotation note="I never knew you ... , so I would recommend that you not anger your own cells by drinking this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  had no idea what it actually entailed. I just got in the uber and ended up somewhere in Boston with a ticket. When we sat down I asked someone ... thankfully in English and adapted to make more sense in modern times, and I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  compass in their pockets. While I didn't get as involved as I would have ... shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time doing. I waited because I naively hoped that life would settle down into a ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  being is I convinced myself that I will spend my time that I would be in ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize ... Well, apparently I touched a nerve with my last entry -- sounds like ... 're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that ... exam, but a few exams along the way. I would’ve failed another class, if ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I ... called to do so as brothers and sisters of this world and I hope that in ... days that I find particularly pertinent - “When I was a boy and I would

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  entertaining and strategic, even if you end up losing every single round. I would ... embarrassment. "Oh, yeah, there's this gay rugby club in Boston that Ruth and I ... to Niagara Falls this weekend." Yeah, so I wouldn't say that in public

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to ... applications for MIT. One word I would use to describe application reading is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... .  Dance. I kind of want to try out for Dance Troupe??!! I think DT would be ... eventually ;)"]life in Japan[/annotation]7 months from now? What do I want my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014