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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... experience also completes a span of organizations – in my three summers at MIT ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried ... doing that, I just sat there staring at the slips of paper and trying to ... /puzzle-solving-sesh at the end of orientation. Apparently most people didn’t finish despite

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Indian Trail, North Carolina, the qualifier for the US Championships in ... . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a ... . Here's me at one of the club's rinks, with the ice all to myself--one of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  of time alone to be at my best. It’s not like I was insanely social ... is a light at the end of the tunnel—and they are often true. images ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  the time of day), and leafy view of my backyard; at work, you'll notice ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  me of who I am at my best, and ~30 days left of IHTFP, am I able to ... I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... enough that I could still think of myself as being good at math, and I ... know dozens of people here at MIT who went to the IMO. I now know dozens

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'll see how it goes.   The effort split at this point. One group of ... the leaderboard earlier. This is right at the onset of MIT's attempt to ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... limiting and destructive way. I wish I acknowledged at an earlier stage of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive ... As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  there are lots of different ways that you can talk about your work at a ... entire list of research published at that conference, which is pretty dope ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020