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  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  converge [on one answer]", Professor McCormick said, "that is what my friend ... of my friends are in it, so when they came out, I accosted them, and ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  National Honor Society. (I was publicity chair of the Math Club. I spent my ... sitting in a rocking chair, spiderwebs from 4 B.C. winding around my creaking bones as I continue my tale.) "AP classes ARE college classes," my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6 ... . My TA had suggested that we budget nine hours for it. Ha. Hahaha. She ... for those who needed it to receive it. Luckily, there were also friends

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  I ate dinner at Dumpling House with some friends. It's only been a ... from Kendall Barbers. George, my barber, mused about how long my hair's grown. I told him that my last haircut probably happened last summer. He

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  group of my friends from the MIT Figure Skating Club drove over to watch ... , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater ... have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  Since today is National Coming Out Day, my friend wrote about coming ... came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  many people! Some of my friends have exec roles on [annotation note ... span the range of most to least culinary effort and skill. My friend ... with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  like when my friends show me videos of terrifying sea worms. I like the ... made friends with the cat on my floor who used to always run away when I ... We’re sitting in my room doing pretty much nothing, because I guess

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  convoluted story behind the formation of the radio show I do with my friend Dan ... of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question: what am I doing with my spare time? Sleeping? No, that's what I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  walk with my friend Ana. I was expecting a 20 minute stroll around MIT ... nostalgic for, I am ready for things to start feeling real. My friends arrive ... This semester, I took three classes. Two of them were math with my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  disgusting mini-fridge, starting my classes, cooking nights with friends, all ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keep slipping through my fingers like wisps of smoke. Every week, I feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  still engage in conversations with my friends about the topics covered ... far the experience has strained my brain in wonderfully new ways. Or old ones, considering that the readings activate primarily my math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  sentences spontaneously run through my mind. Sentences like, “This looks like ... that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... determined that my sleep cycle was actually elliptical. Typically, I prefer to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  and found a postcard from my beloved high school friend Shana telling me ... my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... Andorran system is actually the most recent! Why Andorra? Even my host dad ... , this was my first time teaching. I was placed at a school called the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  internship this summer. I've been seeing so many of my friends getting higher ... fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I'm honestly somewhat lukewarm to ... of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  my first hackathon! I applied to HackMIT with my friends from my summer ... Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... dismantling freshmen’s assumptions that I have my life figured out. (I don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  amused my friend. My pecs protest violently when I try to press my hands ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... my Astrophysics pset (I typed up answers in LaTeX.) So, I doubled back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  who were going through the same. Calling friends while I do my ... about my experience as a transgender person at MIT. The one thing I just ... embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022