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  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember nights when I didn't know a single face in the dining hall. I remember ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  buy it again in the future as I plan on taking more Spanish classes. I ... had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  practice in problem-solving and proof-writing.  But I got more than practice: I got feedback! If I did something wrong, someone would quickly point out my mistake. If I wrote something unclear, someone would ask me

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... people my number because I had given it out so infrequently in the past ... calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  buying the tickets: Me: I would like a Student ticket to 4:15's 21, please ... caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would "quit after $300 ... completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  of the two majors I ended up in, I would certainly be stuffing my ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... at MIT last fall, I originally told everyone that I wanted to major in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... more on Dheera's website) In my transportation seminar, we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  mine 'NYC critters,' and I still have it tucked away in my bookshelf at ... high quality of the work I saw in previous issues.  I had no formal ... fall and had it accepted. In the end, though, I wasn’t entirely satisfied

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... 's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... essentially everything in that whole "I just need this fucking degree but dear

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  now. During my time at MIT, I've discovered that I love linguistics in ... the way I feel about my major. I love my major in a way that is less ... I want to understand it in private. I can see myself settling down

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  to Propulsion" this fall, and I want to prepare in advance. I would ... that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for someone to talk to, like sending texts to everyone who would conceivably

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  website Basically, I decided that becoming a physicist would bring me ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero ... explain how I chose mine. How Anna Chose Her Major Once upon a time, in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... . Which is certainly not the case in engineering. Yet another derailment. I ... : Now throw in the background light and voila: Anyways, I think this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  to die! CVS cashier dude: (I'm trying to buy Tylenol) Well, I need ... how old do you think I am?" "I don't know, 16?" Coworker in my lab ... does that make me? I grew up in Taiwan but I went to an American school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT ... and naively thought we would be fine biking across the bridge in a ... Tuesday, I went apple picking! Me and friends in the hay ride! Every year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  with any last minute items. I'm sure you've been to the CPW website. Did ... I know you've had a lot on your mind this past week, so I understand ... , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  the entire class in one place, I even ran into some people that I hadn ... with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  both counts. In my case, I tell the students to dress however they would ... I submit two essays in a doc. file? If I did so, would AOs be kind ... " would be good advice. Jacqueline wrote, "I've been in the Albertan school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006