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• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  fully immersed in a cloud of good old fashioned cold symptoms and I wanted ... . Instead of spending my nights catching up on readings and lecture notes, I was catching up on sleep. Tuesday night was the first night of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... example, you want to discuss the broader impacts of your work on society and ... the same time. I've never been particularly good at forming habits (New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  about the good stuff. Right between the end of classes and finals week ... based on the cleverness of their slogans. Anyway, on this particular day I ... her Secret Santa gift. Anyway, all of that is a really long way of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day ... growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it ... prefrosh assigned to us, as you can see below: 1,100 of you are coming and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the ... ). Don't think too much. Write as fast as you can. There's no correct way

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  . But above all things, Interphase is just a really good way of ... an entry for you guys on one of many summer opportunities for you guys ... cost? A summer at Interphase will set you back a total of Nada! On the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  2002. Gillespie is also a new television star, playing himself on the ... sort of flipped out, "I remember immediately saying 'There's no way he ... Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  discovery. I spent my first few months on campus checking the UROP website and ... the hologram, artificial intelligence, "pharmacy on a chip," stop-time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  . Just saw this article/video on CNN of Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, who works ... ... (that was my uber-clever way of saying "Happy Valentine's Day!") ... conference on personal robots - some pretty amazing stuff here! It's so amazing

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  a lot of what I had read on the website but with more detail. A lot of ... around that.  The authors have put a good summary of their book on their ... current thinking of charity as something that is good to do but not wrong to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  time on fifth west, and am nervously anticipating the thrill of new ... lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... touch, old-school; a bang of thunder on the west horizon, hair and wind

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  components (including a variety of different posts on writing essays and dealing with anxiety), words of encouragement and consolation, and FAQs on ... thought of consolation senior year). Every year, MIT selects a team. More on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  teams that run the website platform. I was on the Logistics Committee ... to watch!   IAP WEEK 4 Last week of IAP: Code for Good ... . And a ton of other things that I forgot to add to my calendar or are on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today ... with him on the phone. All of this stuff was not great for my academic ... 's usually a pretty good chance that you can get into a class on the first day

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  , under construction On Monday, we enjoyed a tour of the new driverless ... stuff, though very interesting in all of its own ways. The workshop began ... people from the class to work on each of these four project areas. I had

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The ... provide a lot more of information about myself other than what's on the ... new high school does not accept weighted credits from out-of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  . Fee Waiver: Selfless Good or Selfish Bad? I've spent the majority of ... of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys are switched. Okay, I just hit 31 minutes on this computer, so I figured I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  took both of my calculus finals. But on February 21st, the building was ... making y’all dizzy. :P A tidbit of info on this electrobop ... @ MIT with their new song, “Go Ape.” On a similar note, the Student

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010