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  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... , with no Central Meetings to do, I'll get to catch up with some friends and also celebrate Sukkot (yes, I know I'm not Jewish, but not being

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  've discussed data and how to understand its validity. All of these posts have ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we ... of your life. This is not a reason to be sad. It is a reason to be glad

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  can give you a picture and you can try to guess, how about that? What ... This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  nickname like "Paula" or "Kit" and you just don't know how you're supposed to ... course, if I were to become a professor (not going to happen), I would just ... hall. Do you see how terrible I look next to the radiant Dr. Tabacco? She

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  your throat, until it's like...uh, overflowing. But you're not allowed to ... - which is how you perform in relation to the rest of your class). Thus, if ... .02 psets in an hour each and completely loves the material (not to mention

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  opportunity to see what real research is like. Not only do you get to flip ... the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Anymore! (though, to be fair, The F-Word never was)   How did you ... are not passionate about STEM. Although you don’t have to be a STEM ... Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  on coarser movements—how to time my entry, the broad strokes of choreo ... couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be ... your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  at the same time? Probably not. But there should be. Because how else ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... leaves scattered on the raised ground—they did not have far to fall, from ... lengthwise. It is quiet and I am not sure where I am allowed to go so I circle

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  , and we will continue looking at how to analyze projects from financial ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  . It's true that boys can't live here, but the cleanliness is not due to ... Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  sells eccentric MIT merchandise, including but not limited to tiny alien ... mostly harmless, MIT students try not to anger the putrid prophet to avoid ... the certificate “does not give the recipient license to engage in piracy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... learned how to take the glass back off the end of the pipe when you're done ... how to actually blow glass. When we were making paperweights, we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  :30 AM (cough. Next House, Monday morning). Your backpack: not as waterproof to it as you thought. Silly: how grass looks like a bad shave when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  we have about how to improve the SFS content, like more financial ... leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions.org. Although we are two separate offices, we report to the same Dean (that would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  mission to return the favor but knew that I could not do it alone. I wished ... opportunity to receive guidance and support from great role models, and I wanted to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... original one. "But Mimi", you think to yourself, "why not relate it to a ... so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019