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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par ... -acquainting myself with the mystical ways of the Mac (which has been dead to me since ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  find a good new release (or an old album by a band I'd never heard of ... of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety and excitement. New classes, professors, deadlines, and activities ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they find out, Michigan is on the EASTERN time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... this, I’ll be in Moscow, stopping over for a few days on my way to one of ... , so I’ll start with the how. On the morning of Saturday, September 12th

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... , except on substack instead of the mit admissions blog. i think when i was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  be catching fireflies in the courtyard and standing on the edge of the ... ! Terracina was the first of the archeological sites we went to. On the hike up ... as well as the overgrowth of the garden. Its trees grow extremely fast

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  supplies, ice cream, and a couple of snacks on the way. For dinner, I ate ... I found at H-Mart. It was pretty good! I'm trying to cut back on carbs ... use that on poke from PokeHub. Thursday I'm actually unsure of what I

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

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo ... of our group of 12 standing on the brick pile in The Pit after we were ... pictures...(I must say I got a good laugh out of the first one, and I just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  & Comp homework out of the way before I get too tired to function. So ... absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh from Kansas. I’m one of those people who function best when I

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  out-of-class commitments. In my defense, this added up way fast than I ... continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and ... lies on a plane of your choosing. And then you can turn that into a solid

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  -based post of good things that happened to me this semester. No order, because ... point of the above, but this was such an important and new experience. Not ... senior year of high [annotation note="The class was fine, but way above my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  of the best, though not quite as good as Toscanini's or Trident's. Much ... being on campus, I had eliminated 2 of the reasons I had for coming back ... I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you ... building on and/or challenging work. Think of meaningful engagement in a ... baseline of five references that have to come from resources on that specific

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  on you when you travel. You will need them. And of course, your ... specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and ... . Everything Medical  Stay on top of your medical information card. There can be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... tissue engineering UROP, explored new parts of Boston, and ate only at

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... I loved crafting stories, too — they were a way to grab handfuls of ... editor of its Campus Life section. I am planning on minoring in writing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of ... basics of Scratch and the last two weeks were dedicated to working on their ... was still so on top of things. She would keep up with all the labs, ask

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19 ... video of the lecture on this page. And here is the syllabus: I'm glad ... up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  trio of my favorite MIT students featured prominently on an online ... that were featured on the website. So for your viewing pleasure, I ... of 25 African American students under the age of 21 who are making

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011