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• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... restaurant recently introduced a new kind of delicacy--the memelord burrito

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... people who tested out of a lot of our required courses and were already

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• 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 ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

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

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality, every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... and started laying her eggs. It was around an hour or so of her mainly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  the greatest benefits of coming to a university like MIT is that it ... -on-a-drum-with-a-stick thing.) Not only that, but our three hours of practice a week count as a class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... test last month.) This morning was out of the ordinary, though, because ... with a love of all things scientific, too, or you probably wouldn't have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  the deadline to accept MIT's offer of admission? You need to return our ... topics. For the best source of information, please visit web ... is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... ", Texas whereby "Suburbia" I mean for my first year of high school, I lived in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... official school profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered ... in english. My other question is that my school doesnt offer a lot of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011