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  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  ) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... , my interest in comparing mediums had evaporated to the point where I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... . :) ---- Hey! I’m Jia Zhu, a sophomore biology major at MIT. Although my year ... part of my MIT experience has defined my views about service and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  of angst and pain known as Paying Tuition). My situation was thus: One ... colleges. After about 5 picoseconds of staring at my acceptance letter from ... grade. So I decided to cross “Finish high school” off my to-do list

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (the tagline is my favorite line from Wicked, hahaha - how ... to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... 't make sense to my young and undisciplined mind. I don't know if it was the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  Alright, my first serious, thought-out blog entry in quite some time ... learned more than I've probably ever learned during my first semester here ... nights and early mornings fighting my way through problems sets and working

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  lab. I’m certainly glad I did! I’ve learned so much from my ... : “Whether it’s formal gowns (my favorite thing to sew), quilts, pajamas, or gifts for my sorority sisters, I always like to have a project

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  frozen milk chips in your cereal the next morning. =) In other news, my ... dorm will pay for it (or at least subsidize the cost.) My GRT (grad ... of my life, my floormates and I packed our bags and headed up to New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  painful but doable. But it's Saturday, and according to my 18 ... food on campus. Spend the rest of my Saturday hanging out with friends ... repeat in my head for a week already. As the song is less than two minutes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written ... months ago, I began my first term at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I remember leaving my theater class terrified by the daunting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Oh my God. I was peacefully watching Veronica Mars last week, when ... totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and ... more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  This past Sunday night, my friend Hanna '10 and I did our first radio ... anything to do but yell, "OH MY GOD WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE WHAT NOW ... same level of panic while I introduce myself. My name is Keri Garel, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel ... meantime, here's my latest MIT-induced headache: So I had this semi ... tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  nice as my hometown is, I could scarcely imagine it as being the true ... -hour-per-week UROP, and my overly ambitious attempt at a double major filled my schedule with five other classes that I thought looked cool. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  during my sophomore year, but one time we were at a dorm formal and looked ... white rice and peas one time that year. My friends who don't cook often ... halls since sometime last spring. I polled my friends to see what they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  musical-theater oriented music and received the Emerson Scholarship. My ... much. I took a few my Freshman year from one of the less notable (but ... have a bike. My senior year of high school, I won a bike on Capital Blue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in ... . One day my sophomore year, I was working with the mice in the basement

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed ... succinct, complimentary and distressing e-mail I've gotten in a while from my ... presenting on my 20-page GFP report. I don't really know what I'm going to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn ... graduation was pretty painless. My family doesn't have "roots" anywhere we've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my ... my friend Siyi C. ‘26, a fellow winter enthusiast who occasionally ... uneven to not be slippery, despite my sneakers' tread being absolutely

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  have never felt more important in my life. Alevator is a golden retriever ... friendship would be a bit toxic and codependent <3 Needless to say, she’s my ... ="112863" image3="112864" /] Celevator is my home elevator as a resident of C Tower

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025