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  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full ... necessary than my urban dwelling classmates do. With that said though, my ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  connection. I didn’t think about the temperature, so my fingers are almost too ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning ... had guest lectures from Anne Whiston Spirn, my advisor, and Marie Law

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  ). Normally, I would be there for my Fundamentals of Computational Media Design ... Soylent Green). I took my seat as the presentation started. I looked around the room to see who was presenting first. This caught my attention

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... telling yourself that "this pset's only worth 1.5% of my grade anyway

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my ... campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... will always be “my first class” and that means they will always be

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  (and even my sixth grade daughter!) are choosing what classes to take ... through the eyes of my daughter, who was on a FIRST Lego League (FLL) team ... Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  silly nonetheless. Let's be frank, during my freshman year of high school ... was made of. Now fast forward to today and what is on my mind. Today, I ... time I start to worry about my future or begin to wonder why I’m here, I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... very messy rationalization. But you can absolutely take my word for my ... getting paid and doing two of my favorite things, and I felt like the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ... programming language that I'm now using in my linguistics research. So ... purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT ... /the thing you’re putting together the marketing campaign for? Answer: My ... thus stimulate the economy on the island. So my tasks now are to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  Boston, February 5, 1861 My Dear Henry, I have just returned from ... Legislature and several meetings have prevented my writing within the past week ... am sorry, my dear brother, that I can give no reliable good news in

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  make my decision regarding which college I wanted to go to, I was pretty torn over my options. I was mainly choosing between MIT (which is just ... the MCAT). I thought I'd share my thoughts on this matter - since some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... think one day my coach just announced it to the team. Now, as a captain

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  further ado, let me tell you why. In no particular order, my classes: 7 ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field ... my fantasies, I imagine 4.111 being like Project Runway, where

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... sometimes marvel at how informative my sentences can be.) By now, the quick ... won the Physics Question Identification contest on my blog a few months

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... either of those. My e-mail yesterday, from one "Charlie Card" of ... dark. I set up my tripod, got my camera all set, and waited. Sure enough

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  catchy jungle drums just don't mean anything else in my mind), we returned ... original; I could close my eyes and imagine I was playing the video game ... since getting my hands on a program, I was waiting for the last piece, a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  everything over, update all my entries, and be done with it. Step one, copy the files. Easy. Step two, change all the internal links on all of my ... my web space. I CTR+A'd inside my admissions blog folder and then

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  the Fe-y?(triple pun!))) Wow, sorry about that. Back on track, my HASS ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we ... 'll be with you 'til we die!". Also my personal favorite: [translated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Many of my readers know by now that if you ... find a copy of Billy Collins' poem, "The Introduction." My reasoning was ... , because the last time I'd been in any talent competition, it had been at my

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008