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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... ?!??!!?" and "wow, just wow..." I guess I was more focused on being there "in ... balls wasn't an accurate representation of my CPW (I only went in there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  another test, which was just in major scales but still hard because I suck ... page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and easily find your printouts in the massive pile of stuff that has been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... in the next couple of weeks :) A final note: the house I’m staying in has this sign by the front door, which I thought I would share… "She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching ... dance floor. I know Cassi Hunt. In fact, she was my "date" to the boat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  work on my stuff. I thought this would be helpful in both showing you a ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... courtyard that is now occupied by the huge Christmas tree in the picture! I do

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1 ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... , so I looked up that little fact and wrote it in my planner. June 6th

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... , as I sat on the T, I would note down everything I had worked on that ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  spare time, but enough time that I should, in principle, be able to post ... first time I've felt burned out in a (metaphorically) clinical way, so it ... to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to hang out, do their psets, and meet other people in their course. A few months ago, I had the idea for doing this post, but didn't actually know

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... was going to take me on, so there would be no surprises, and I would ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like ... bacterial sense). You see, though it is impossible to see in this photo, I ... they sprout is. I am like a great lion, tawny and magnificent in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  mother finally came home late at night, she would come in to her room and ... I had cable and I would just watch the weather channel over and over ... vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... .) *With Class of 2013 matriculation decisions due in less than three days, I ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  I thought you all would like to know this exciting news! Schmill ... admissions office plays in bringing these outstanding students to campus. "I ... pleasure it's been to work with them in this role," he added. "I'm humbled to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  . What next? I may return to France in IAP or next year as part of ... the most rewarding as well. Without a doubt, I would love to do MISTI ... In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... 1967. Haacke decided that he would do a line drawing in the sky with a ... 21M.A12 Does. Good luck to all you EA applicants! I was in your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and ... Chinatown.     When I turned in my last final on Thursday the 20 ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019