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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Do, however, take everything with a grain of salt. Also, don’t be ... Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering Innovation and Design, a class that all GEL1s take). This week was pretty long

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to make that up the next morning at 8 a.m. i hadn't studied nearly enough

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... again, only better, because now you have all your stuff here, can do laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Massachusetts, and not a day has gone by without me thinking "TGI Boston" (even ... Things I Love About MIT (or at least it would be, if such a list actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing ... that I'd like to do in the next five to ten years - which seems like a ... slowly, and there are a lot of things I want to do. Write songs. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You ... using mass-production and assembly methods to produce a product in ... for several days back to back was senior year of high school when a few

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  that are not showing on MyMIT. Do not send a second copy of any document ... calls. Many of us who read applications are taking a little break and ... the January 1 deadline may still have a few questions. So let

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  'd agreed to help when I took on my positions. Do I have a duty to the wider ... only pick one, or a few. How do I choose? The more I think about it, the ... do again. I used to feel that to myself, at least, I was a predictable

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  (This might be very ambitious) Do 50% of my Psets off campus Finish a ... pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... ’s violin Learn 3 new coding languages 3D print something  Use a sewing

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and ... would just be too long but I’ll try to make a start here. There isn’t any

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  soon as I sat down in a relatively quiet environment I've been doing ... that I am suddenly doing considerably worse than I expected in a subject ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework ... doing, and why. I was sure James would be happy as a neurosurgeon. I was ... I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  fine cj: it doesn't feel like i'm doing fine wayne: you know i took a ... supposed to balance when you have a foot up wayne: well how do you balance ... much. i feel fine wayne: yeah that wasn't a bad fall cj: also do your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  (where you do need a master's to enter a PhD program). Actually, the only ... . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a lot longer (and probably a lot funnier) than this, but it is now over an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  Once, a man whom we can only assume must have been truly desperate responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement, "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and downs this semester, but I think it's been overall a net positive and I ... . (Because, honestly, I've learned A LOT.) academics This semester I took 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote ... admissions and summer days. What are you doing this summer? Currently, you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  going through the syllabus and a couple minutes doing introductions, we ... wouldn't have to do it through a screen! i won't have to be alone anymore ... , that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020