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  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... , lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of ... sympathetic to both. I was suddenly very conscious of the fact that I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline ... perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school forms (teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of ... small breather of vacation time between reading Early and Regular applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... awake because of content. 11am - noon Next is biochem II (5.08). It's co

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... . Snively said: The beads are so confusing!!! Ha! I wish I had a good video of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  people who you always think of by both first and last name all the time? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... ="attachment_72166" align="alignnone" width="274"]  here's a photo of younger me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never ... . I wanted to document my first week of "actual cooking", showing you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  This past weekend was a 3 day weekend because of President's Day ... ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good ... knew that this was the chance of a lifetime, that there would never be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  experience is mostly with pumpkin patches, but I have also spent many hours of ... . Here is the moment that I achieved my dream of IRL own-picking: [caption ... to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  , so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass ... skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my ... past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... , and the results of any research or analysis using the data will be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of ... mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of you who have completed all or some or none of what you planned for the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic ... , i see you MOSTEC...) driven a zipcar full of friends out to westford ... on netflix and suddenly it's august. i'm tired of macgregor's teeny

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh, of course she ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print ... listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  Shenandoah National Park houses 200,000 acres of forests, rocky ... interested bears. She also (very matter-of-factly) informed us that this was ... in the car and took off along the scenic drive, the vehicle in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013