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  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . Sidequest 9: Build a thing. I built (with a LOT of help) a shelf for my loft ... . (Warning: I’m about to wax philosophical for what will probably be several

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  some people get stuck playing the game of life on a much harder level ... wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I ... , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging ... . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... -watching, miles & piles of work, not actually playing sports Nature Agrees with ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  I wanted to play with friends. Making something useful for others is ... isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... that there was hope for me yet. It's also pretty cool that my experiences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... games as my preferred form of media, but I still enjoy the thrill of being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  2, lived on the infamous Conner 2, played on the varsity field hockey ... tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... (Harvard MD) Chemical engineer for ExxonMobil Computer engineer at Akamai

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  .   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... reality for her at least during her undergraduate career. But, when she ... . However, during [annotation note=" Rush is 'a chance for new freshmen guys

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  started playing again, and ride waves of adrenalin (the terror kind) for the ... . It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds ... lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... edited for clarity. Here are the basic details for each of the six

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT ... GPA are all accurate. (note: we don't get 0.3 or 0.7 for plusses and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... 's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... the fall? We talked for half an hour. And then he left for the airport. I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014