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  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... miles ever before, and so I've pretty much experienced the pinnacle of bad

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many ... Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and ... accepted in the space online. Can I send it my e-mail? If yes, where and in ... probably don't have it. I would recommend sending in an additional copy of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... going to present in higher dimensions). I.e., the number of points in $A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  , and no doubt some of you will be in fields I can't even describe because ... of experience to go back on, and I can't reassure you about the next 3 ... 've achieved and what you'll do in the next few years, I'm awed.  Every day I can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in ... . That's why they can't predict the date in advance. I know it may seem ... -semester seniors. I know the month of March is an incredibly stressful time (I was in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  something embarrassing. In one of our first sessions, I tried to convince my ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  great), i felt odd. while everyone was talking in the lobby of kresge auditorium, i took the stairs down and sat in one of the chairs in the corner ... friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  were affected by yesterday's events, and I hope that we can come out of ... even sometimes sad being on the other side of CPW. I knew that it would ... Peterson's picture of the green building lit up in remembrance of those who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I ... Thursday at a dinner with MIT's Undergraduate Women in Physics, of which I am ... -notch restaurants in Cambridge. Speaking of which, I owe y'all a Sparknotes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I ... hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how ... mouth, not the outside, so I couldn't really hold a bags of frozen peas to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... fold clothes. I promise that the repeated act of folding one sleeve ... person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... that I'm excited to see more of in my remaining half a year living here ... it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  it for the return of students, and I wanted to share it ahead of Labor ... I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... , they can affect the expression of that gene. In this case, no protein is ... identity of the base pairs in it. Computers are our friends, but we can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  cooperation between NGOs. Having just been to India, I can tell you that it ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population ... , Sneha ^.^), I can stalk NGOs instead =P Just kidding - mostly, it'll just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one ... it anyways. Many hold the mindset of “there is nothing else I can do to ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023