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• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  a little bit about what my job is like from November through March ... application wouldn't be on my pile in the first place.) By now I'm fully ... my head I imagine bumping into you on the Infinite Corridor, asking you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the ... of my inbox right now, parties, house meetings, and foodmobs to ... Destiny kitchens, my room, Cory’s room, and Random Hall desk, I downloaded

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  kitchen and burning my nostrils—the event organizers had managed to order ... ... one... The first bite was not that bad. Maybe the nerve endings in my tongue momentarily went into shock, because after that my mouth was on fire

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  it in and make better marks than my classmates who diligently plugged ... starting with my thesis and not pausing until I'd filled 8 pages with my thoughts. I wouldn't even reread or edit my papers, just turn them in and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... turf war over my pillow. Yeah, my PILLOW. That I SLEEP ON. NOT COOL

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... can even read my daily reflection posts, if you want, or track any other ... is part of why my vlogging experiment for the Admissions Blogs is so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather much the same as last time. I took the model I previously trained on my ... was wrong. i guess i was kinda sad and that my haikus werent that great

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... . My sleep schedule, I feel, is about 2 hours later than normal working ... brushing my teeth and washing my face, throwing on clothes, fussing with my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  my own experiences with rejection, waitlists, and more, as a part of ... 15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be ... my feelings will resonate with you. Maybe they won’t. But maybe this

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  kindly tolerated my expletives. “Maybe I’ll have a six-pack by the end ... , and yes, on many highways. My favorite part of traveling is visiting ... walk in, even if only for an hour or so. My least favorite part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... , to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name ... Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... knot, inspired by my classmate's project of tying knots and weaving metal ... ="attachment_84089" align="alignnone" width="384"] my original design! The key ring

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the ... within 2 days of each other, making my November quite literally full of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... because my mind was swarmed with thoughts, thoughts of what my decision ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... Harvard Bridge during a thunderstorm this past summer. My first glimpse of ... enough wind to annihilate my umbrella and propel the rain through my jacket

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I ... have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010