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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  client at the end of the day, which was slightly terrifying (since our structure was out of PVC and not designed to support his weight at this point ... . At the end of the day, we won Honorable Mention! We were all surprised

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... welcoming. At the risk of sounding partial, I will also mention that we had a ... stepping out of the haze of classes and exams and taking time to look at the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching ... . Believe it or not, I had to be up at 8:30am ahead of a 9am tour. I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  weren't tears of sadness, or happiness (at first). My eyes were just ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... ’t stop - I spent a long time lying awake at night thinking about many of ... winning author and creative writing professor here at MIT, got accused of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East ... You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... into your first week of class at MIT sleep-deprived, which… you'd survive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  's EVERYTHING. You literally passed through *at LEAST* 5 different rounds of ... much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  granddaughter of this girl I thought was really cute and our characters hugged at ... should be made as often as possible (of course not to imply that I have at ... entered 15 or 20 of these over the span of a year and won at least some

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  Jimmy Bartolotta '09. One of the great things about sports at MIT is that ... ; At first, Jimmy Bartolotta laughed at the thought of bringing his ... student at M.I.T., particularly in his physics courses. "Some of these kids

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  any sense if I said it to someone at MIT. He also told me the story of ... nonsense? Just as it’s nonsensical to think of someone at MIT losing their horse to a lion, is it not also nonsensical to think of someone at MIT not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August ... of MIT, I've made friends that are more like family at this point, gone ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  asylum, and one of them was e^x. The other mathematician was angry at e ... jabs at a school of other learned human beings? Teachers often invite ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To ... ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015