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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  characters left to adequately describe the full extent of my obsession, so ... wore to major competitions (and also to my MIT interview) My face while ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed my ... of this blog may recall my post, last April, about MIT and the Marathon ... happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the ... MacGregor people. I missed it (smh bad blogger), so no pics for you. My

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  becomes infeasibly heavy. I keep these thoughts close to my heart more than ever lately: I tread a very fine line. My committments, classes, psets ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  sleeve shirt instead of my sister's Tin-Tin t-shirt with the arms cut off, but when light comes in my window I wake up optimistic) and I ate my breakfast on the back porch. I had class at Harvard, the only school

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  firehose of insulin right through my veins. by admissions' own Holly ... (including my first choice, the only real school I was excited to attend ... . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... volunteered abroad in high school, in Guatemala twice and India once, shaping my ... passions. My first major is electrical engineering and computer science

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  , Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of ... afterwards). I've been sunburned twice, and I can now use my watch tan to tell ... writing classes I'm hoping to take. I'm excited to see my friends perform in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some ... ’re available. My counselor/school already sent my midyear grades. Do I still ... form with your latest grades. My school does not provide midyear grades

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  I was having a chat with my friend Matt O. '15 when we both agreed on ... made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not ... trying a friend's gummy vitamins ended up drastically changing my day to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  my soaked pants on the central stove results in the lovely aroma of ... so warm heavy following prints, hung my coat on a tree branch, climbed ... , Massachusetts), my sisters and I arrived at a lodge along the beautiful shoreline

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  MIT Midyear Report is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Don’t fill it out ... already out of school.   I think my counselor already did that ... your MyMIT tracking and you’re the one that needs to submit it. Even if

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... of the two majors I ended up in, I would certainly be stuffing my ... , I’ve been wrapping up main summer development, and my team of beta

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  attention to the plot) – what really caught my eye was the name of one of the ... reenergized my desire to experience Wagner. Prospects for me not only managing ... subtitles (did I neglect the part where it’s all sung in German?). My

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  was spent taking full advantage of my week of no commitments by ... first week was needed to adjust to my new schedule and the loss of Pass ... Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science). To start my journey into Course 2

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  to get my feet wet (err...only metaphorically) with Winter School. It ... monster of a machine: This is my workstation PC I built over Black Friday ... love me some BSG. My favorite part of building commputers though, is the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  least for me). I’ll be spending my IAP playing ice hockey for the MIT ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company ... startup, because it highlights why my classes are helping prepare me for

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd ... morbid picture of MIT to you. Let me be blunt, my friends. There will be

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or ... follow his or her passions. It's not that my internship made me like ... hesitation and was relieved that the decision came so easy (whereas my friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011