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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  impacts on life at MIT. As students, we can literally be in the room where ... students and will keep them on track for graduation.” After the first year ... Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... somehow surviving the treacherous Boston weather. Being an MIT student, he bought the milk carton and made his way to his floor—Bonfire—only to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  , and made quite a bit of extra cash on the side. A few years into ... ’s blocky and my brain grasps it. I can also create reasonable pixel art if I ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  , Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... incubation time, I meet with my grad student and professor who advise me on the ... unlawful amount of fun playing on the beach, going to an Israeli concert, and

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  more minutes on the transfection... I wonder if I can mix the media now ... would be participating in RBA and wouldn't be allowed to move out. The ... 7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  interviewed to be the GRT on the floor after I had left and asked if I lived on ... series of games and painted the room number on the door using a numeral ... wooden flooring from Lowe's," they said, "and chopped the [flooring] up on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and ... ask the seniors I knew what they were taking, and would often be ... into the real world and work on real problems. I thought that maybe I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  shut up (using choice words that I cannot put on the blogs) and I stayed ... . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  reproduce by replicating themselves on the inner lining of their pits and then ... what it used to be:​ the space allocated to your critter is limited, and ... ." Critters that scale the Stack in search of water or bugs to eat can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  notice from looking around, and from reading the comments on some of the ... - something where you put yourself on the line and went through with it in spite ... with fewer or a narrower range of activities. And believe me, you can be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  is on who they are and what is right for them, rather than the prized ... be about. As an admissions officer, I recognize that while the application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you ... know it or see it, that I won't be worthy of connection? The things I can

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  The Bebras Computing Challenge (American homepage, international homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to ... USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... own colonies, and becoming the iconic first president and, in many ways

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the ... internet, technology and the world than I ever was before. Now, you might be ... might regret later on, it's - and this is a direct quote - "Making the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to ... thrilling world, and a strange one, and the inertial being in me, while

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  row in the same direction. People and projects can be grouped into ... recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a ... area restaurants, hiking on trails like the Minuteman Trail, and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking...   ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ... of the choices you'll have to make pretty soon, and it'll be filled

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh ... , running the digested DNA on a gel, and choosing nice-looking plasmids for ... home to find dinner on the table. Hooray for boyfriends who can cook! (It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be ... us that MIT would be a wildly better place with you on campus. And if ... things, and, as a complete side effect, you'll be cast in the best light

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010