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  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... option and an afternoon option. Since only 32 classes at MIT out of over ... class into your already busy schedule. I have had the fortune of taking at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  number of artistically talented people at MIT. Maybe you're a quarterback ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  green plant patches to spring up at the bases of Pocket-colonized trees ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at ... rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... ) as Melis '08 laughs at me in her warm, warm sweatshirt. I hate you ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of ... the window, probably much to the amusement of her roommate, which at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at ... none of those are true at the moment. Between classes and the annoying ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  to cross a body of water without doing any work at all. There's no ... point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... , DDR players... Yes, students at MIT are excited about science and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  undergrads UROP at some point. Most of the people I know currently UROP. While ... professor’s office number, and walked in. A couple of post-docs stared at me ... 'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  exploring all of DNA repair, or at least homologous repair which you can ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated

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

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  my boyfriend's door is pretty good at attracting the ladies. Here ... fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G iPhone at opening his door every single time. Other things it beats Chris

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012