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  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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... that's been fine with me—this is my first academic year where I've actually enjoyed my technical classes for the most part. Even then, I still

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  about a program that interests you. If you've read my other posts than you ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet, one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this ... of conflicting feelings, now nearing the end of my UROP I have truly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a ... pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my ... discover. For some background, my high school was tiny. My graduating class ... from a meeting in 37-212. My first class tomorrow is in 34-101. If you

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when ... like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book ... 've been around the world, on the phone, at the beach, with a boy. in my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my ... the season (my first race ever!!!), but luckily I had two incredibly

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to ... from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... general has been very productive, especially for me. Spending most of my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... 'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic ... look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  My last post described how I finally made the definitive switch from ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... already entered my mind. And we all know from Inception, an idea is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my comforter and reevaluate my dinner choices. (It's not as bad as it sounds

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012