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  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  Adam to teach them how to fly model airplanes. In the evening, I ... mention a PowerPoint presentation to the lab professor, how often do you ... hard is it to write the research paper? How long does it take? When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  know how to write HTML, more or less, but I didn't feel like it.) FYI ... than one and I won't know how to respond to the labs I don't join ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  was ranting to me about how stressed the workload was making him, and so ... college decisions being sent to their inboxes. Such a beautiful season. If you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  pack. They don’t know how to push themselves to the point of discomfort ... brag about how they never have to study or go to recitations or lectures ... In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  and I was in the passenger seat trying my best to keep up with how OP ... , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to ... ’t hard to state. How do you give flu shots to as many people as possible as ... sketch of how I remember the clinic to look like. It’s probably inaccurate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  still remember how to integrate -- you'll need 18.02 knowledge for 5 ... , feel free to email!) 2. Sulinya asked, Hey Mollie, how long does it usually take to do a Ph.D. program? Like how long is your Harvard one? It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  for us to see ourselves as we are? How can we know our true selves when ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... 't want to admit. After all, these decisions can be very personal, and the

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

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  how to respond or won't be able to keep from tearing up. The follow-up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it ... who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  exactly how it felt to prepare myself to click that one final button, the ... For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT ... able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You ... friends of mine and I decided to see how long we were willing to wear the ... using mass-production and assembly methods to produce a product in

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  Responses to Comments: A: Hey Laura,stupid question : I just wanted to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or... ? The TV is mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate ... long and harsh journey down to Economy Hardware (how did we know about ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... , inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  into a department once they've declared it? How easy is it to go about ... does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  walk, how I am or am not in the flow, to how it takes me time to relearn ... how much it takes to learn English, let alone pick up on nuances like ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to keep your mind as single-pointedly focused on whatever you're trying to accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  said: i don't really know how to say this but i've been trying to find a ... , but I wonder how hard it is to keep a pet at college. Do you have a pet ... So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his

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

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  jumpsuit reminded me of how magical this place was to me during that weekend ... to learn how to DJ next semester!). My friends Dylan, James, and Niko ... the beginning, so how could it not all turn out okay? I’m glad to have

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012