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  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of ... time in the larger of the two living rooms, in which resided four squishy ... of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge-watching shows in the dark hours of the night. As a nocturnal creature known as a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came ... . Thus, I hardly spent any time in my room during the first couple of weeks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... . The pros simply outweigh the short list of cons. Yet I have friends who ... the positive side, this constant stream of commitments keeps me focused

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here ... out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot ... this, since the beginning of the semester, I have begun to use some

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on ... intangible haze that is the last chunk of my semester.    here, i attempt to pick these fragments out of the haze for you—because each of them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... with somewhat of a plan, and you'll probably be fine. Some members of the ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series ... with my brother (the same brother as above, though I have a few of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of ... are the themes of the play? What kind of couch do I want? Should

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck ... . Pictures to come soon! The end of IAP also means...the 14th annual Charm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the class of 2010 who are straggling onto campus over the next few days, I ... you can see the colors of their towels, and you still can't see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... majority of the time exploring different psychological experiments and tests ... 'll admit I wasn't a fan of this lecture at all. The professor opened us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  sponsorship group boldly asked panels of businesspeople for money. For the three ... university. All hope is lost for the latter if you can't do the former. Of ... 's Award (the most prestigious award FIRST offers its teams.) I did become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  again a team of drastically more boys than girls.   The first ... that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is that I sometimes forget what the outside world is like. Of course I know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best ... friend. Is it emo enough? Spotted at the Boston Museum of Science: one of the sample songs to learn about sound was performed by the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... student, who very generously offers to briefly interject the professor ... has a lot of incredible experience in the exact area you were hoping to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... future you’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010