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  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; and confusingly just as much juggling. But one of my favorite parts of ... all my sensibilities, split my chin open during a match. Against my own ... on my clothes. Oops, so I ran off to find just where I'd sprung a leak

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... signed my name on so many mailing lists that I honestly forgot what I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  Yup, it's true: CPW 2010 IS ALMOST HERE!!! My poor inbox is struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  enthusiastic about my classes this semester than I was about my classes last ... found biology slightly more relevant to my existence than, say, gyroscopes ... .00 here at MIT, so maybe it'll eclipse my high school psych experience. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the ... my head. As I was walking around today I thought about why I enjoy ... by Building 66 (where I spent much of my undergraduate life). I like

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for ... me, and I really don't think that sending an addendum to my application ... that the paper was well outside my normal field of study. So while I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24 ... .” *An aside: My classmates in senior year voted me most likely to lead a ... .02, but this conflicted with my chemistry lecture. As I mentioned before my

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  colds" or "the last time I was sick was 1918" or "MY leg would never fall off because my immune system is better than yours." Can you see where ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I arrived on Saturday from Florida, where I was spending time with my family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  Hi, I'm Karen and like most other freshmen, I'm still working on my ... anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... used to my parenthetical digressions if you're going to be reading this

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... Burton Conner. Recognizing my desire to blog a bit before then, Laura ... of my important due dates for projects next week (the second full week

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was ... something to do with my flight scheduling. Anyway, as I see it, I've got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. By a machine, I mean my television. Oh, the movies I've missed since I ... decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  gave a presentation on the best Mexican restaurants in Boston, and in my ... /convenience stores on campus, lunch at one of the lunch dining halls, and, since my ... of my dorm. I usually go through about $800 per semester on my card. 4

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some eminent CS guy was on its way. Strengthening my plan was the fact that MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  sights as my bunny hat, my $3 airplane jacket, and Mitra's 14.41 midterm ... until 2 AM, whereupon I started my problem set and studying for my German ... . The next day Adam took my German I exam--I mean, he took it along with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran ... ?) where you read and reviewed five books. I figured to optimize my books

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024