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  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the night before. My clothes were laid out for me, my lunch would be packed ... changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  waving parents and sister and dog, you head for the burritos, and you ... for you to eat this burrito without ketchup, and Angela, head ablaze, is ... for you and your burrito. Especially with ketchup. You see a long line

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for ... . However, rather than settle for a second choice, the valedictorian at Charles Herbert Flowers High School started applying for scholarships early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story ... I received on Dr. Tabacco's second test (my lowest grade at MIT for three semesters), I never stopped loving her, even for one moment. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  ) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... about biomedical ethics. It wasn't a bad concentration, but it's tough for ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... cellular, molecular, and developmental biology, so no ecology classes for me ... sleep statistics for other variables. Definitely. I tried to look at hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... years. 1. The night before my final paper was due for 21L.009. This was ... South Station, sat down in a train bound for Philadelphia, and collapsed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my ... projects I've been working on at my UROP for the past two years. So first ... receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just ... Rainbow Lounge, which was pretty sweet. For much more information about gay ... why so soon?" wrote, "Hi Matt, I know this might be a bit late for you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... frequency. We get paid for each post we write, according to the number of hours we spent writing it -- for me, that's usually two or three hours

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... their crusty career fair t-shirts for suits and gowns.  As I prepared to ... making longer stitches, which would be required for a fancy dress, I tried

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  considered, then discarded for one reason or another ... and projects, I had gotten an extension for a paper for my [annotation ... to get supplies for the trip. However, I also didn't want to be writing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  from composing for 21m.301 and from arranging for ohms, is that i’m a ... for the sake of complexity or theoretical significance simply doesn’t interest me. for instance, in the case of my ohms arrangement (1:02:00 here

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  blogger, I was [annotation note="REX stands for Residence EXploration, where ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and ... decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super ... get together for the first time. The Logarhythms were preparing for ... . Hmmmm. Acceptance for some. Rejection for most. How could you work there

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... the final project (the non-professional version I made for the class

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars ... for Undergraduates) SENIOR FALL 8.033 (Relativity) 8.287 (Astronomy Lab ... 't know of a better expression for this than "experimental physics boot camp

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012