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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... . Why’d he tell me to turn around? I slowly came to a stop and locked up ... too bad to happen, I walked up to him. Apparently, he’d been watching

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  of classes, I woke up two hours before my first class so I could have ... found myself unable to sleep until past 3 am and woke up only five hours ... helped fixed my sleep schedule, at least for now, before classes ramp up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why ... . Maybe he’ll solve global warming or save Africa or come up with

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves ... has a very organized cooking system. The 25-or-so members are split up ... cooking team. This means that, every Friday, I show up in the kitchen at 4pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  what informed my class choices this fall. Here's the tentative line-up ... .05 Quantum Physics II A step up (in rigor, perhaps?) from 8.04 (Quantum ... junior year) is 18 units, and usually ends up being more. That means that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  you could say the goal is to end up in a future where people have data ... effectively a wage slave. If all you end up doing is nursing the money, without ... budget, so you end up with scenarios like the current one where a few well

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  cop, or a dog kennel owner. Growing up, I always liked math, but when I ... once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  signed up for the latter along with half of MIT, because how could anyone ... picked up Troilus and Criseyde without Arthur Bahr to guide me, I wouldn ... . Bosh. And surprise surprise: Amanda Bosh and Mr. Bosh ended up getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  ' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... phones up in the air sometimes. There are no magic carpets, but life really

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  wanted to be an engineer and just accidentally ended up on this path which ... America start up FIRST teams worldwide escape to Spain EMT ... Fair, which was today in the athletics center on campus. So I got up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  catch up on months of missed Reddit, I turned it towards the long queue ... rented a kayak to paddle up the Charles River to Harvard and back. I also ... reasons other than study space)! I picked up two books on the programming

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... grow up," said Laura Nicholson, a third grader at Ocean Avenue Elementary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn’t cry until after I got outside and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  ‘Allo poppets!! Sir Nigel Archibald Blogberry here! Marianne and I docked the commvee for some petrol while the kids fetch a cuppa and some take-away. Earlier this year Eliza asked…

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  , as the ungentle rain smashed into flooded streets and scoured my shoes ... long as said patron doesn't show up in jeans. Jean-Georges is not amused ... crazed gourmande. On Monday morning, I woke up on a friendly couch in New

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  doesn't line up with what others think. The decisions never lay with ... ready for you next time If I could grow up in a day, I would Come back ... up stairs, and you take a step, expecting there to be more staircase

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] i still have those quotes hung up in my ... to make my parents proud. i could run away from the balled-up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  sibling had decided to show up to Portshire only two weeks after he ... like the miraculous product of a stick-it mom and stuck-up ... way up, toward his neck and face. Draw yourself in, Ted. The calm

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  reached a critical mass of conscious MIT students who were helping us set up ... was more funny than it was useful), and we got everything set up. Our ... restrictions. After tying everything up and doing a brief checkover of the venue

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  , building up a strong academic and critical thinking foundation for their ... Matthew Perry in Japan in 1853 with the purpose of “opening up” Japan to the ... X resource now include setting up an AI system to allow online learners to ask

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018