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• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  why she would need to come to school in these last couple of weeks." I ... intentions. I never thought a girl like me would end up at MIT, let alone in ... I would have missed out on if I didn't chicken out that weekend in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... I was stronger in the humanities and social sciences than in STEM, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... semester in CMS.300 Intro to Videogame Theory. In addition to this, I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . Or maybe drown. But it would be exciting! In fact, while I wasn ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... honestly have given up hope. i have never felt so defeated in my life and i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  don't think I would take anything away from it. In fact, I think my cool ... would never be a computer science major. I had taken AP Computer Science A in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie ... hours, in pool water, in salt water, in fresh water, in the ocean, where I ... ) anywhere in the Boston/ Cambridge area? Hopefully (crosses fingers)I'll get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . There are so many resources here that I would have to fight for if I had ... opinions; I'm just trying to plant a little seed of doubt in the minds of ... . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  would change if I didn't get in. I certainly wouldn't think less of ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  have a toolbox and I know there are a bunch of tools in it; I would be ... practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play ... surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  buys food (Which is what you need in order to live. You’ll find that ... dinner in Boston but mostly I’m a TechCash guy. I wonder if that has ... ’ve yet to cash in on this, but I have a feeling that there are Bose

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most ... in the style of Napoleon Dynamite, "SWEET." And what would a blog ... ...or taking a nap. Keep in mind, this is just my take on things. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  situation: B1 feels like home in a way that I didn't really believe I would ... , which coincided with a record-breaking cold wave in Boston. As I waited ... , I found her and two more of my friends in there, hanging out, waiting

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free ... minutes longer than Adam would have liked (I can't help it, I have a soft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... -grandchildren...yet." When I came to MIT, I was somewhat afraid of what relationships would be like seeing that I expected to be studying a lot of the time. Would we

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos' conviction in the Philippines and then I would walk out and accept my fate ... home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free Snapple, cheered for the runners, and not-so-jokingly announced I would run

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  regular basis, or that I would forget the existence of misery in the world ... imagined that in the midst of relentless intellectual challenges, I would ... sunlight, crystallize it in glass forever. Sometimes I succeed, but it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even ... better this way. Now, I will always remember them in their best form with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021