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  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... was a colossal disaster (despite me only sleeping around 4 hours in the ... to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation, there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... in the spectra of these compounds which would allow organic chemists to ... sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  necessarily majoring) in Course 15: Management Science. Attending professors ... AGGARWAL Professor Aggarwal specializes in international stock markets ... research focuses on mutual fund investments in international markets

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re actually going! How ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety, have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed. - I actually was in Alaska

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... , in my graduation speech, with strangers I met at conferences. After I ... babbling about E. O. Wilson; Prof. Bahr reminded me that we were in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  Please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please    Regina: "Get in loser ... the large crowds Stand in long lines for your turn But this ain't Disney ... hear “app's online” 😒   “Tell me ‘bout yourself” “I code in C on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... . *** Q: Tell me a little about yourself. A: I’m Vaishnavi, a junior in ... in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Q: What is MIT INSPIRE

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good-bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote: “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... very different from leading a team of engineers in a technical project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Videos Watch them!

  

  Watch this one first! And if you want to know more about Embrace (mentioned in the video above), check out this one too :)

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it ... transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed-in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT, Time to Step Up? just in today

  

  Youtube video supplements in college admissions As applicants, what are your thoughts?

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... computer through your daily life. Case in point - walk into any common ... engaged in watching the movie. Walk into any communal psetting area, and you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  And we bring you more sketch! Watch . . . us

  

  This is what happens when we hook up a webcam to the server in our floor lounge. Say hi!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred A forum

  

  We'll have some advice and instructions for Deferred students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009