Search

Search Results

• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... 's when I saw it. Everything finally snapped into place. How could I have ... As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  I didn’t know how to feel about it. I think I never truly realized ... , meditating on the nature of nothingness and absolute freedom. It’s been a long ... something felt profoundly different. Was it hunger? The delicious piece of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  ’t get the “yes” we had hoped for and worked for for so long. It felt like ... , or at least how toxic it was for us. As the saying goes, “don’t put all ... it would’ve saved us a lot of stress and heart-ache in the long run

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  place, it's perfect for me, but I definitely understand how people can be ... So we all know what tomorrow is, and we're all excited about it ... wants to come here. I know, I know, right? It's true though. I know if I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  .02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution ... pleasure. On the other hand, How to Stage a Revolution* has the coolest course name in all of academia.** It's a history class where students

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  aardvark comes out), it's free reading material. Run wild, folks ... through file again) Actually, Arthur does wear pants. ARTHUR: (putting his ... obviously not English, named him Government because she thought it sounded

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  any reason as long as students don't apply elsewhere. "It's reached the ... 's just what everyone does." The bottom line here is that it is okay to slow ... organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  any reason as long as students don't apply elsewhere. "It's reached the ... 's just what everyone does." The bottom line here is that it is okay to slow ... picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  ’m realizing I miscalculated. Because basically, it turns out no matter how many ... much. But with this one, it turned out to be a good laugh after a long ... organized. It made me pretty proud of myself too, taking baby steps from my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  breakdown of my blog audience is not verified by real statistics. It does ... Center. (Secondary factoid: The primary factoid does not indicate that I ... 3948394 mispronunciations of my name later, CPW strapped on its private jet

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

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  cooker. How you come out of it is a mystery. Ultimately, you’ll choose your ... year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  're comprehensive and long and will serve as the bulk of the class. It's six units, so ... and running, now you need to know how to use it! Next up is assembly ... spending long nights at your desk wondering how the heck we're going to get

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  it all in one sitting, while documenting it with pictures / videos and posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the doctor away. Because that's how calories work. I have two younger brothers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  , “How does this compare to MIT?” Apples and oranges… ... The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I ... have no idea how I stumbled across them as an elementary schooler with ... the blogs had painted. Sam and Mitra and Mollie had long since graduated

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  leave.  It’s so funny how that works – when something you fear turns into ... really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... year into the future, and it’s a crystalline, pure nothing. Or maybe

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... like something out of a Disney movie. I could barely believe it was real ... Mount Rainier[/caption] If you keep climbing, it starts to feel like

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  , but I wonder how hard it is to keep a pet at college. Do you have a pet ... -curricular activities for MIT? I mean, does it really matter if you don't play sports or ... own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  adjusting to do; it’s going to take a long time to re-imagine 19 years of ... reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one ... ’ perfect (which is why I don’t mind shamelessly plugging it on the blog). BUT

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  or political science so I have no idea how complicated it would be for ... learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn ... part of why I chose my company this summer was because it paid the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022