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  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the ... ice, and as I left for Switzerland, I used that time away from it all to ... years back, to help arrange ice time for me with her coaching team. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  For those of you who don't remember or are new here (or don't care ... 'm spending the summer as an RTA for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for the money." This made a pretty big impression on me first semester, and ... if I need it makes me feel secure enough to try for a little longer and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  Essay -  this is one of the two classes I'm taking "for fun". I don ... -Nehisi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic - which in the past year became my new ... : Science, Technology, and Memoir - this is the other class I'm taking for fun

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names ... pick through my junk mail. All senior year I got scholarship offers for "Kim", who apparently won lots of money and an "academic biography in Who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  immigrated from Mexico, didn't have the money. After she finished high school ... started for Isaac when he was born. ''We know we have the first two years ... years. My husband tells Isaac, 'Even if I have to eat beans for the whole

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  destination isn't in downtown someplace, you'd probably have to walk for half an hour. I have a friend who's also living in Mountain View for the summer ... means that things are far from each other. For example, a friend was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  . Caroline has a passion for music and playing music. There are plenty of ... MIT that seem normal once you're here for a while, but you realize are ... tetazooglounge. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... Finding Nemo, and (2) started reading Hunger Games. At some point, I fell ... theater to watch Hunger Games (go watch it - it's awesome!) and finished the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... gaming the housing lottery. YOU DON'T NEED TO GAME THE GODDAMMED LOTTERY ... Lausanne, Switzerland, where I've been living for the past 10 days. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  role intuition played in directing our search for such principles, as ... being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  different. Granted, we’ve had this option for the past three semesters and ... .009 Fundamentals of Programming ES.1803 Differential Equations 21M.601 Drawing for ... blogs, for example. But with that said, it definitely was cool to meet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  next game of among us or only connect or tichu. i'm waiting for ... a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Institute for Talent Development and the Johns Hopkins University Center for ... ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a ... world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today preparing for upcoming travels, including some college fairs I'll be attending ... day weekend for MIT students (but only a three day weekend for staff

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester ... kitten except for little Brittany! Kayla hasn't decided on a name yet ... Game of Thrones. The little kitten is so cute! She jumps all around and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged ... . Mitra enjoys the economic thrill of auctions. Our emcee for the night, Julie Banda from MIT Medical. Guessing Game: What was my final auction

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006