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  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  realize I only have x days left, and crawl back to my desk to attack ... Course 5 (chemistry), because of my unnatural (dare I say.. inorganic ... I completely forgot to write about my CPW - which was awesome fun

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  right? Hmmm? If you didn't meet me, then you probably met my mom, since ... week, during which she keeps trying to clean my room. Thanks, Mom. I ... my computer right now (and as a result of this and all five seasons of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  twenty-minute drive from my house. The only thing I scored this semester was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project ... really hearing and caring about my music as I was writing it. After my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  to start working, andI stayed up until 5:00 to finish my essay. Shockingly, I was pretty tired for my 9:00 AM lecture on Tuesday morning ... get coffee. Coffee = bad! Here is my first page of 14.05 notes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  hockey, so we postponed my first day by six months.) Monday was the 2 ... ’s always my least favorite part. Of anything. Ever. Well, this particular 2 ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of ... , a culinary "competition" for which my floor routinely cranks out about ... that my SAM: Spaghetti, Apple, and Meatballs didn't win the award for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  my 10.490: Integrated Chemical Engineering problem set (which ... encountered my suitemate and moral compass Dizzle '09, just finishing up a 2 ... all day, while I was sitting in my classes slowly passing out from sleep

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week off! Just got back today - 1000+ emails in my inbox - good times

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to ... grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could best agitate my mouth (using my tongue as an approximate Rushton impeller

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... times a week in the Stata Center, taught by Professor Bawendi; my 5 ... today with one of my favorite professors, Carlos Lois. (The good thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  't even think about how much TechCash I had on my MIT Card, but it's a good ... burrito, I had 81 cents left on my card. After dinner, I went to La ... had 47 cents left on my card. You know me, living on the edge. My room

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  is actually a really exciting opportunity. To my knowledge, there has ... television show. And believe me, my knowledge of reality television is pretty ... on my blog (readership roughly equal to that of the Washington Times

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  my jokes, so overall I'd say things went well. I think I have time tonight for one question (more soon!) before heading off to my friend Satwik ... actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... asks, "My higher education advisor told me that my school can submit some ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff ... keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  's an attempt to get my smarter peers interested in it so that they might ... [annotation note="funny enough I am a bio major despite my lowest IB score being HL Bio"]IB Chem[/annotation] and gotten a 7 my junior year. I thought

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  ’s been two years, yikes). I didn’t want to just post my essays straight ... . Instead, I thought I’d show you guys one of my essays through Google Docs ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at ... drew closer, resume workshops and interview tips began to dominate my ... solicited some sample resumes from my friends, a clear difference emerged. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017