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  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... recommended and which appears to be important for admissions. Would I, as a ... honors courses either. You do seem to be among those who are qualified for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... have to use my body and voice to convey how I’m feeling (which is angry ... fundraising ideas, meet the rest of the cast, and then strip to lingerie for a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to ... , and I’m too impatient for that. What else would you like to know about ... , and I like to think that I speak Japanese (I took it for 3 years in high

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  .Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they ... checking in on people, campaigning to raise funding for families affected by ... It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... culture, but it's not quite there. How strange that I came to college, of ... their early 30s to around 60. How is it any weirder that some of my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for ... for me to get into the class if only I showed up for class on the first ... reading my blog, for some strange reason I don't even want to know, please

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class ... someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... extraordinary for my digital photography life. (Photography people, try not to ... , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was ... on how good the food is.  “Oh yeah, that’s Phillip Isola!” Ali said to ... for the following realization to hit.  WAIT THAT IS ACTUALLY THE

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and ... class before—the homework for each class is to do readings

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed ... and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe ... : they will not.) iv. depression I submit a drop form for the class to my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i ... been an increasing sense of trying to control my life and how the future unfolds because uncertainty is scary and it is valid to want to guide how

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  and emails that i've left to sit for weeks, because the longer i put it off the worse it is going to be for my mental health. it's asking for ... feeling of being admonished for not reaching out earlier. it's responding to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... join the group by learning how to push yourself and produce good work ... 't work for me. I do consider myself to be a "self-starter" (you almost have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  interviewers) to work setting up chairs for this large crowd! During the meeting, I learned (the hard way) how not to pronounce "Nevada" (hint: it's not ... thank the ECs for their help, we went out to dinner together. From left to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  College. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... 's bad for my eyes and my back and my body. Coming to MIT gave me an excuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  , and love among the creatures of Earth, we will all learn how to be a ... distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That ... The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  to complete the requirements for both degrees at the end of five years ... 's all about how you want to structure things. In DUSP, there are four ... you have the chance to explore offerings in any field and see how you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How ... to enter the other eye. There are two common systems for doing this ... walked around the area trying to find a Starbucks, and for the first time

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  pictures, so I guess I'll start to "show, not tell." (Pwahaha. How many of ... to 77 Mass. Ave. We were 30 minutes early for the CPW Student Welcome ... guess 2 AM is early on MIT terms. Friday We all agreed to meet for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008