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  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  the first place. (Oops. My advisor and I both messed up on that one ... happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on my Add/Drop Form. I walked into the Lego Lab and immediately someone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do ... my MEng next semester, and I do not want to be taking 102 units, and I ... vaguely want to shake my fist at the sky and ask what I did wrong to deserve

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  I actually really enjoy it and seeing my progress. Since I've been ... grades very soon. get a summer internship You can see my internship freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my entire life: my family’s house in Los Angeles (one week and 18 years ... right now. My guiding culinary principle is “Keep calm and add

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience ... . This did not work that well, because the sore is on the inside of my ... my lips and ice easily melts inside my mouth.  1/10 Salt. I saw on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped ... . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my papers. My first few weeks at Cambridge flew by. Participating in meets

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my backpack several times before finally realizing that my hand was now covered in ink, and that my ID was ruined...(or splattered-decorated with ink

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... , like eschewing traditional coloring books, when my children were younger ... spontaneously reaching for the flip video camera when my son refused to eat his

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound of roosters and step outside my door to see peacocks, cows, and stray

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  Ok, I'm breaking my "Only blog every other day" rule, but only ... hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... Thursday this year, completely avoiding CPW. My next math test isn't until

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  school. Yeah, it's sad.) I'm not sure if my situation is representative of ... to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... certainly is my hometown. I was born here, I spent eighteen amazing years here

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to beef up my math background. Prof. Kleitman is a zany, charismatic mad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  fans), my dad, grandpa, and great-grandpa were White Sox fans. Not surprisingly, then, my brother and I became White Sox fans too. Of course, I ... chance to go to games one and two in Chicago this past weekend with my

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  My grandfather was from Milledgeville, Georgia. He was a simple man ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... -known problems associated with the USNWR rankings; my fellow blogger and colleague

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on pizza and bourbon chicken from the mall, so day 2 doesn't count.) In my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you ... lot of [annotation note="my list: all about love by bell hooks, crying ... , going into my junior year of college, i’m almost done. it took me long

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  ="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020