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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  will post once I see a logical end to my day. Brendan asked, "What do ... Brendan, MIT students go off to do a lot of different things when they ... you speak to who you are and what you want to do. John wrote: "I have a

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  find myself unable to do anything, whether it’s as grand as stopping a pandemic or as small as comforting a friend. All there is to do is wait. Wait ... trying to do something. Our dining room has been converted into a home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a ... 's post or Cam's post, you've probably gotten the idea that driving is a bad

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Fall 2020 Definitely a bunch of other times that I do not remember ... roll Do a blind cannoli taste test (i recommend trying Mike's, Modern ... headphones Come back to your dorm room and do a deep clean so that you can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your cat/dog need a house? Build it a cat/dog house! Do you need a particle

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to laugh about it over. “Have you ever looked at a Domino’s box? Do people

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  've been waiting to tell your friends, family, or family pets to vote, do it ... , iPhones, Treos, whatever.. just be sure to do it before the deadline ... , to the point that I sound like a drowning male frog through a voice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get ... incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do. Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special ... only so much time in a day to do everything, so why do you deserve their ... What follows is a thought that I've mulled over recently put into

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  sort of review, but I'm still quite iffy on how I'll do...so would a poor ... It's been a while since I've done a Questions Omnibus... Harlan '10 ... recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  twist and break, doing everything to throw you off its course. A storm ... numbers and letters. Scores and grades do a fairly reasonable job of ... millions of people is your drive, do it! Dedicate a significant amount of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  're doing it to make a deadline, or because you're forced to. but if i tell my ... where i want to work—i stop myself. i try to do something else. read a ... friends, is what people do outside of work. the other day there was a picnic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails ... do justice to how otherwordly it is. For a day, I was a princess ... jousting on a zipline, with a foam sword. I hear princesses used to do that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... linguistics, I recently started a UROP that has to do with the rhythm of speech ... week some time ago: we'll be doing a co-blog post thingy about it down

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  different functions and settings do, and then also read a bunch of photography ... classes (a chunk of which is TAing for Toy Design), doing Pistol (Nationals ... working to make an awesome video), am doing NextACT (a play put on by Next

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... . Why do we send you all of that stuff? Good question. The answer is that ... admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller coasters, swim the across the Charles river (YOU HAVE NO PROOF), and have a bajillion cats (SO MANY KITTENS RIGHT NOW). But a time-honored tradition of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014