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  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  restricted elective that I get to pick from a relatively long list. In total ... according to plan, I'll graduate with a degree in 20 and[annotation note ... 't think I want to only work with cells"]not all that interested in using

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... inside of the building in an effort to preserve the years of artwork

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain ... with a stranger in any physical location at this point in time, i decided ... to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  without incidence. For the summer I learned to use Octave. Then I finish a ... days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... apparently wrong in my computer in a very big way. The guy recommended wiping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... : Roll with the A Dogs The people of A invited prefrosh to meet residents

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  resubmission to our journal. Getting to “Reviewer 2” Albert Einstein (in a nice ... to be Paper 2; in a few weeks when I get feedback, I’ll need to revise ... more. In a sense, it’s like “inverse game theory”: instead of trying to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... application has been posted. You can request a paper copy, download a PDF, or ... mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in ... lucky folks get to hear them instead!). We get samples from chemists in ... happening in the parks during the summer time, so after work, we grab a picnic

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  easily distractible kid in a candy store. Maybe I’ll find a new hobby, a ... hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  i seem to be physically incapable of writing blogs in a timely fashion, so in an effort to force myself to write, this will be a rambling ... using a literal stick as a conductor’s baton, and a dog that stayed in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  in hopes of catching up to my current life. For example, I have a good ... this year more. It's nice to be able to take a more active role in ... Summer. I'm hoping to stay in Boston this Summer, so I'm feeling a bit

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  or not, it's a privilege not to be treated like this in the workplace ... In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a ... liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be ... , or limit the things you can do. You owe it to yourself to find the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... procrastinate. Which isn’t to say that the videos aren’t effective or useful ... largely about self-acceptance in general, what particularly stuck out to me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as ... Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013