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• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move ... 's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving felt so strange. The pandemic had somehow compressed and expanded time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  that term and allowing you to take it again with no penalty. Why was I ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II). And you might conclude a few things about my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  shop is no bigger than two dorm doubles (maybe a generous triple) and is ... by Tananya Prankprakma and Sophia Wang   This post is a love letter to food written jointly by me (Sophia) and Tananya.    I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  , faculty, and staff can go hang out and create beautiful glassware and ... for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning ... in the MIT Glass Lab this week. Since space is so tight and so tightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  : i crunched the numbers and i saved enough money. i was ready to run ... ran out of money? what if your parents found out where we lived, and ... time in what felt like forever, i felt happy, and i felt free. dan: heck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  alone the X-ray cost. These were all free for students and covered by my ... for the pain, and I'll be able to sleep at night pain-free. After the ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  -ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it ... you have classes and psets and labs and tests again” was a rough ... feels like a never-ending stream of due dates and internal (sometimes

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  snapshot (and taste! read: FREE FOOD) of the culture at MIT, in all its ... that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to ... 't affect the camera at all - it still works perfectly, and no pictures were

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  finals are done and not during the actual term, but that's just the way it ... Julie Gerberding and Compton lecturer Tom Brokaw, for example. We've also ... , written by MIT Professor Robert Tavernor), Hayden Christensen, and even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  . Wait, it's free?! I'm getting one ASAP." And thus, it was decided that I ... Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our voyages into Boston, meandering past our usual destinations and toward the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  ] I got free lunch and a t-shirt! ^_^ [3] Lab Assistant [program ... has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment. Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed ... sports 4. watched Jon Stewart give a kind of bizarre and unrehearsed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  amount of working. Just sitting and doing nothing during my free time ... , somewhat like a real-life video game, that had me crawling through lasers and ... -reading extravaganza I headed over to the MechE reception for food, free coffee cups, and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  the worm and observing the resulting phenotype. In very broad terms ... scientist this semester, and the fruits of my labor have more than justified ... classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms ... i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  much and are more into things like management or econ or literature or ... mindless robot, just as I am not a mindless robot and just as Chris, Matt and ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat

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

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to ... So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  about as real as dragons and reindeer (oh wait…) Now, those tunnels are ... and none of the campers knew our real names. I chose my camp name because it’s an anagram of my real name and I’m almost always smiling.) I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  working computer, and some free time to go through my photos from the semester and briefly reflect after a hectic last few weeks between final projects, finals, senior week, graduation, traveling, and now MISTI for the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  long-term plan. I can drop 6.s966 and absolutely nothing bad will happen ... test, triple- and quadruple-checking for errors that I might ... numerous pre-Spring Break deadlines and exceedingly poor sleep, but I’m used

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025