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• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  ’ll remember for the rest of my life - sitting on the beach at 3 am, surrounded ... actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT ... could! I also put a decent amount of time aside for having a lot of fun

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... to be shot by Boston police). At around 11:15 Dan and I prepared for ... soaker for Dan. On the way we stopped at Verdes (grocery store in the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time ... right now - class of '10). Alright, I'm sorry! (for this being totally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  --I've been waking up at 7 AM twice a week for my one-hour step aerobics class ... your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for ... off to work at your six-figure investment banking job and stop caring

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  and getting good at it, as if I was holding out for a better goal. In ... for the world?[annotation note="to be clear, plenty of people at MIT ... at MIT, the other half of the group at Caltech, and for the first time

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  it would make up for a lower CR score but I guess not. There is at ... doesn't even offer AP courses. Are APs valued higher than IB courses for ... . ------------------------------------- Am wrote: "I was admitted early and definitely plan on going. At what

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... use for smaller vegetables, so my fingers aren’t at risk for cuts. It ... for food I didn’t even find that good. So, I’ve spent the last five

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each ... 't enough. I could spend all day every single day for weeks studying and ... kid who studied for a couple hours and got it. Lesson #1: Hard work and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  we bloggers do some work on presenting our living groups to you. For ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... each floor, along with one graduate student (called a "GRT," for graduate

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  and I have no regrets"]bathtub.[/annotation] Laying there, staring at ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... together and it’s just too much, all at once. Not only am I keeping up with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note ... -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a post about how I’ve been managing is coming at some point, but that point might be after the end of the semester']managing everything[/annotation]at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... each game [annotation note="Happening next week, Friday August 21 at 7:30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  down for a whole month while at home, but i'm currently living with at ... ="564"] the North End is lovely at night[/caption] i've also checked out ... [annotation note="great for nighttime walks"]Paul Revere Landing Park

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built ... around the world as well as for radio astronomy. With the power turned off ... : they have history written right on them! Take a look at those dates, baby

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to ... hadn't reached out to anyone for recommendations. We hadn't requested any ... signed up for two test dates and found 3 recommenders willing to write us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  library. At 2:50pm, Carl and his grandma arrived (I invited them.) At 3pm ... grandma) explaining and defending my work and occasionally glancing at my ... leave -- we could start driving at NIGHT, make it a few hours, sleep, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  " for "Next Act." During my time at CPW, I managed to visit every dorm ... at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... 'm just rambling on aimlessly! No one at my school blogs, and it would have

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  like writing about them. I'll be back at school soon, where I'll actually ... tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had ... .033, and 24.900 are all at the exact same freaking time. I'm not even joking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... 's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020