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• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  rearranging the calendar so Christmas falls on New Year's day instead. We ... % of annual time) where we go to class, typically weekends and days off are dedicated to "catching up" on work and usually IAP and Summer are

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these ... week has been particularly rough on several of my friends here at MIT ... First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  of 202 inscribed copies on New Years Day, 2002. On February 20th, 2002 ... palindromic practitioner. Most notably, on February 20th of 2002 (02 ... , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I ... . Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th ... the early UK release date, and I absolutely loved it. A huge fan of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  the puddles with the hopes of getting on the evening news. No such luck ... Most of my weeks at MIT have been crazy and cool and full of interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  I hate New England. No really, I do. Ask anyone who's had the ... weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... much of this static electricity buildup nonsense that's been driving me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• 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 ... monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and ... evenings of the semester (overshadowing even the 6.00 midterm). I was on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... , getting 100% on most of my psets and not punting a single one, but because of my first two exam grades, if I didn't do ok on this third exam, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  video of it. I think it's a pretty good peak into the sorts of things a ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  become my second home because as one of the System Integrators on this team ... The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... admissions process. Presumably, there are tens of thousands of students out ... alone. Some examples of things you could write about: Your experiences

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  liederhosen, many of whom were even playing oom-pa-pa music on tubas. Do people ... in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  the walls of the Infinite without being seen, or putting a flag on the ... answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the ... ,000 books. That is a ton of books. Since keeping good time is an ... Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  some more, good words, words of rhythm and grief and hope for the future ... the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food, but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  . Either way, I wish you the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you ... on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  . Either way, I wish you the best of luck wherever you go, and whatever you ... on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May 4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  't yet shown up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... -- Way West 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009