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  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... I'm going to be real, I'm here for one sole purpose: SHAMELESS SELF ... cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How, uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... difficulty. A hat tip to my boss, Chris Peterson, for finding this challenge

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... 't getting my new bike for Bike and Build (which you haven't donated to yet ... too busy lately to really go, so I'm excited for that as well. And

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about ... pouring rain to the Z center for dance practice, or feelings of panic and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  afternoon, nothing happened to me for like two weeks. Oh, except I saw this ... . Actually, you ought to watch out for the champion Asiatic chicken. How ... changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... he went to Harvard for his undergraduate economics degree and didn ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there really is no time like IAP for doing those things you never seem to find

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  for the world?[annotation note="to be clear, plenty of people at MIT ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... for a conference our group had organized. The idea was to aggregate all

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  me: I like math. I like education. I like to write. For the ... can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to ... been to before and live there my freshman fall (another story for another

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  present evidence that so far I'm 3 for 15. Hopefully I will have things to ... . I thought it'd be fitting to get my book signed for my high school ... people to dress up as the cast of Hey Arnold! or The Magic School Bus for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners ... ; This event was such an amazing opportunity for students to showcase their ... 't be able to hold it for the next two years since Burton-Conner is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  't reasonably expect for my body to endure another one of those hazy and hungry ... I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit ... , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  meeting with various faculty to shape the perfect path for the future, I ... went for a walk around downtown Boston. I hadn't talked to my Dad in ... theater district, he called. I had to balance the cup on a concrete post for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach ... Solving are working together to create a place for students to experience ...  founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  much detail describing this now because I need to study for my final on ... decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote ... details about Mathematica, be sure to check it out. Today though, Wolfram

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some ... tomorrow and you can fail to solve them for yourself (just like I did on all ... the advent of the Wolfram Integrator online, there's no reason for me to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  : good blog,I am doing research for my Daughter,she wants to apply to MIT ... .009 meeting, and then pack for a spontaneous 24 hour trip back to the greatest ... get off campus for awhile. I'm even more confident to not continue on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024