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  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don't

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most ... , or none of us do and we talk. But this one time, since there weren't ... actually solidifies at that temperature). But that didn’t stop us! We put on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  . This also isn’t a coming out story, mine is pretty boring. We’re gonna ... some point I was like wait do I? Yup, turns out I didn’t. So moving ... couldn’t. So here I am, in a new city, surrounded by people I don’t know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very ... /skateboard/penny board/scooter/Heelys people can't relate.) Zero displacement, measurable ... realizing that yes, in fact, t does equal t, but that is not answering the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  said, “hm, I don’t know.” It’s interesting, I’ve heard people use that ... not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to ... I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ” (I didn’t actually think that last one, but the juxtaposition holds). And you know what I think about that now? I don’t. And what I regret? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here ... -burning." A little alarmed (the Party?) I changed into shorts and a t-shirt, and ... class, and walked to the DuPont T-Club Lounge. The T-Club Lounge has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  don't know what casing the joint means 2) FRANK WILCZEK IS TALKING TO ME ... laughed and said "ahh, I see" as though he didn't believe me. Recovering my ... memory of him walking away; one second he was there, the next he wasn't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... and Their Implications for Electronic Order." Don't know what those are? I don't really know either, and it's ben 35 minutes. That said, he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same ... understand why: chemical tissue clearing doesn't look easy. So...MIT assigning

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  , "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" (Randy Pausch). All wasn't lost last semester though! I learned about toys, differential ... realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  on College Confidential (if you don't know what I'm talking about, don't ... , yeah, there's an application fee, so don't apply if you don't want to ... THIS SCHOOL. (Disclaimer: If you don't actually like science all that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit, maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  'sup yall? Sorry I haven't blogged lately. The truth? I've been ... couldn't have done it without all your help. I feel kind of guilty begging ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  any other college, did and does this. MIT, however, decided that it didn't ... pamphlet-creating admissions officers can't convey. MIT does its best to ... exist. I don't sugar coat things, I don't always try my hardest to please

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  as GIRs (pronounce each letter, don't call them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs ... to MIT to learn math, chemistry, or biology. As such, I struggled/didn't ... semester here. MIT doesn't want to make you cry (though it happens), so they

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  As you may already be aware, today is Ben's birthday! I won't ... . So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  professor. You don't understand a single thing in the notes or the book. In short, you're screwed. Ease and dexterity won't be showing up anytime soon ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a ... two-digit range of essays, and I didn't even use all of them. I wrote ... previous year (or even the one you have this year, but I don't suggest it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  of music when we've run out of nervous banter and can't think of ... on? What if our music collections really aren't that good at all ... time slot in the first place?! Didn't they realize what they were about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006