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• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  :00 PM: It's not MIT time yet, but the professor is asking how people ... last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of ... so forth. It is the kind of milestone which deserves reflection, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life. As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7 ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  Museum of Fine Arts). On the outside it seems like it’s a normal, historic home in Boston. Only the signs really give it away as being a museum ... . Also I really like that the Gardner is personal. It felt as if I was

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• 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 / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a "sweet italian sausage" in 95 C water to cook it to an internal temperature ... 'll let you know how it all went a bit later tonight. UPDATE: The exam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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