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  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... 're the kind of person that would gladly subject yourself to judgment in ... med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... I should have gotten B's in several other classes as well, but I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... extremely nice room and i’m very glad that i live in it. Not only could I name

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  would react in each of the three outcomes, and I kept comparing myself to ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  .013 (General Biology), a class with at least 300 people in it, where I would not ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  assumed I would be hitting it with a hammer later in the process. However, I ... things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my scream would sound like; I couldn’t remember ever hearing it before ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... story. I said, in effect, there there's no such thing as being "qualified ... Friday. I had an icky week. I had four exams in four days, one of which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... commencement, here's one insight that I would share with past, present, and ... of that would have happened had I not felt like trying something out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of ... side chants “Bexley!” as the lawn empties. In the silence I notice that ... of familiar and friendly faces, some of which I haven’t seen in a while

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... dropped Analysis after 3 all-nighters. In October, I sought a reasonable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... point where I wasn’t fully engaged in my other classes. One particular

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  name. Malingap is talking about what I’m interested in and feeling ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . *There are some structural causes of burnout in grad school that I am all ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018