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  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my ... of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe ... eventually my advisor sits me down and says, “Amber, you have not completed sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  plants. I'm not exactly sure when; it might have been after my former ... could see from my bedroom while I read applications. After he moved out ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  ’ve found that so much of my learning has come outside of classes, including ... from a few years back: Recently my boss left for another job, and I ... of the sales team. Suddenly, my work load doubled. My list of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... formative in establishing my interest in preserving student culture across MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... started. Now, it feels more like I'm in a sprint, going through my classes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should ... receiving end of chore assignments. Girlwise by Julia Devillers was my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  are no longer relevant. Last spring, one such email caught my eye with ... the prompts and the titles of my stories: 9/10 – Includes words (1pg ... my free time. I can’t thank Marjorie enough for how kindly she guided

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? Hi! My name ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... geographically close to each other) with my girlfriend Kathy '10 (link to an old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  my friend's room at Random Hall reading that fateful email from Ben ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of ... is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  pm and bedtime: 1. Baking a cake for my friend Sam's birthday 2. Starting and finishing a pre-lab for my first graded Junior Lab project ... my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My first encounter with Internet mathematics occurred when my high school ... point out my mistake. If I wrote something unclear, someone would ask me

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  on a tangent about my sailing PE class at some point. (If you were ... about sailing. I’m a “story” kind of a person. I structure a lot of my ... was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  persuasive five-paragraph essay, my three thesis-support arguments would be: (1 ... ) nobody in my family has ever won the lottery, suggesting that my otherwise ... my genetic misfortunes, despite the misguided expectations instilled in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  bed with a dozen other people, carrying part of my couch upstairs for no ... (read: non-MIT) visitors, locking myself out of my room two times in one ... , suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... of someone who was pretty involved (in my opinion) during the high ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  It has been far too long since my last entry, and I have an excuse for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I ... from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  Three summers ago, I visited MIT with one of my fellow schoolmates ... mean somewhere along the middle of your journey). So this will be my home for the next four years. (Along with my Mathcamp schoolmate from 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007