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  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  ! Thursday, I arrived at CPW two hours later than intended. My flight through O ... Boston from my hometown. I was soaked from the weather, completely unable ... MIT. It was my very first time on campus, so I was struck by the sheer

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  other. "Are you Dember?" "Yeah, hi, you're Laura, right?" "Oh my God, I ... , really awesome. My story went like this: Mystery Hunt began at noon on ... midnight. On the way back to my dorm I stopped at my team's (Death From Above

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  stay up until 4, what with none of my classes this semester starting ... to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... people on my floor are much better cooks than I am, and every now and then

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  public policy class (in my major), an accounting class (in Sloan), and a ... in my mind even as I’m walking home from the classroom in Building 35 ... eloquent my classmates are… and in fact, much of the insight I’ve gathered

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  everyone else's blogs. I would be happy to get feedback from my readers on ... quality of my blogging has gone downhill as time has passed. When I first ... now as it was at the beginning, and my perception is the result of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs ... what kinds of ethnic foods my family makes. Ethnic foods? The most exotic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... left (in that respect, it was like most of my MIT problem sets last term ... learned from a poster in my high school library when I was 13 years old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... everybody that the graduation robes bleed red in the rain. My friend Tulasi ... Johnson Athletic Center to Killian Court, too, so I'm glad my shoes were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be talking to someone, and I'll be like "my boyfriend Adam" and they're like ... my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you ... . I'd worked very hard my entire school career, taken the tests, done ... essays, filled out the forms. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that ... was asked several times at my grad school interviews how the environment ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  how my interview weekend went" entries. So seeing all she has to talk ... my terribly interesting life. This is my first ever blog entry...so bear with me. Me working on one of my planes There are a few constants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology ... morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... of my life (aka lab), things are going spectacularly. I developed a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... to my already unmanageable inbox. Now, I also have this not ... it when I wanted to check my mail quickly ina computer cluster or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . I was lucky enough to be assigned to my first choice advising seminar ... was lucky enough to be assigned my first choice class here too- 21F.716 ... MIT. I'm not sure if I'll have to meet with the professor to "prove" my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  dream of becoming a rocket scientist. "That is my dream -- to become a ... the rest of my life." [...] "I think it's recognizing the responsibility," he says, "especially like in my family in Georgia. My mom is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and ... thought I could split my experiences across three entries--kind of like "The ... kind of passed out with A Prayer For Owen Meany open to page 89 in my lap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... has played a central part in my experience here. It gave me the opportunity to continue playing the sport I love and I’ve even met some of my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  a hard time saying through words can be said through my Big Rock ... right outside my house, even if they are no longer quite green from being ... of course, more green living things than my heart could ever wish for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  by Fatema’s older brother Sayeed, also an MIT alum"]my friend Fatema ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023