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  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  say time is flying. Take for example MIT. When I was a first year, 100 ... milestones was becoming a blogger. For me, this past year was 100% of my MIT ... Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  ; For anyone that's used the elevators in Stata this is a common sight ... professors and graduate students but they present a learning opportunity for ... Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that ... firm, Worldwide Aeros Corporation, is in the early stages of developing a ... cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project, and for good

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it ... across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first ... my winter coat and put away my summer clothes; it's always a semi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  advertisement for MIT Spokes that caught my interest. Every year, Spokes gathers a ... that they had provided me with the wrong information.  For a short while ... friends would be in Paris for a semester-long exchange program, and I wanted

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog post from a hotel room that has not one, but two queen-sized beds. (One ... , so for some time, I wandered through a nearby mall, thinking we might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... glasses when I try pouring myself a drink using it.) I could go on for ... that. I want the MIT Admissions Blogs to remain a platform for positivity

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  . Untethered by the wants of anyone else except for myself. I imagined a life of ... leaving MIT and jumping into a future that was so solidly in place for me ... and just be a complete and utter dumbass for a little bit. I am not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  opted for a dataset + viz. The semester prior (Fall 2021), I had ... alternative, OpenStreetMap, using react-leaflet, a Javascript React library for ... 't bother buying a custom domain for it since, well, it's not that serious

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to ... time has taken on a new form. From the second my head lifts from the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  /meeting ends instead of having to find food and then walk across campus for a ... lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for ... and Hydrothermal Liquefaction. So how does it all work for a Freshman ... working with. My research is concerned in a few different things. For

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... was away for much of my internship, I was handed a large deal of ... explored the novel construction and assembly methods needed for such a design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... heights. I asked Fred, as a fellow blogger, to write up his strategies for ... first steps on MIT domain as a prefrosh, I actually spent a lot more time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I ... clusters for my daily dose of midnight Haskell practice. Instead, I bumped into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  -German Shepard mix, Toby. My younger brother got it for his birthday a few years ... , my fish. When I was younger, my mom used to keep a fish tank for me ... to a pet, but it was time to face the facts; it was time for a

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  of ourselves for finding you. Second, it was a celebration of simply ... compounded - the arrival of Spring coincided with CPW, a weekend that is (for ... colleagues currently use. A big goal for the coming year is to expand the blog

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6 ... floor in despair and baking cookies for my [annotation note ... credit for free every year, and each page is 10 cents. we can refill it if

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for ... ’m jealous of the 23’s for having at least experienced a normal freshman fall ... me sad, filled me with a sense of loss and longing for something I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021