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  W.M.

  

  away for a moment, thinking it would surely take them at least a few ... few strong beliefs about [annotation note="They believed it started at 1 ... professor adored W.M. because they were adept at juggling mathematical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  you try to find your place at MIT. It's normal for it to take a while ... approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally ... my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  , ferries are available at 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm, and 4 pm, although the last ferry leaves at 5, so I'm not sure why anyone would want to spend only an ... so you can get a spot on the middle deck for the best views. (I arrived

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  Thanks Yuliya for hosting this blog! I’m not out off-campus, so I ... organized on campus. There are four main clubs: G@MIT (Gays at MT) This is ... shortened (and not at all nuanced) way of putting it is that East Campus is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  conference room at McCormick for working hard/hardly working with all my lady ... weekend baby!!! Some people may sneer at how MIT folks seem married to ... traditions. And to celebrate--and mentally prepare for this frenzied weekend

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  meant we were up against each other for a shot at the finals. My roommate ... problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  for a strike. The ~700 professors at the faculty meeting voted (again ... Staton 1962: The Four Preps There are two concerts at MIT (one listed ... spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  at your dream college prove there's a place for every student." One of ... . They've also been installing new Ethernet jacks in all of the rooms -- at ... routers? I just can't see somebody stopping for a quick wired internet break

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  with a case of the shakes. At 50, Belinda, who wears her black hair tied ... most people don't know is that at home Belinda Chinea has an 18-year ... wasn't like the other moms," Cristen said on a recent afternoon at Union

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new year at my friend Jacob's house, as I usually do, and caught up with a ... first discovered at MIT. Both of them were recieved better than my first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  did my show at 7am and stayed to answer phones for Ben '09. He does the ... with each other. The dorm gives them an annual budget to spend at their discretion, for dinners or study breaks or even appliances for the wing to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I've taken all my classes at MIT save for just two classes at Harvard ... fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  reward for my effort? Will I ever? Because at MIT, I often put a lot of ... "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  in high school, teenagers at a playground designed for 8-year-olds is ... in the front yard for hours at a time. But I got into MIT, so Sam's Mom ... understood what I was talking about at all, and Mrs. O'Brien told me I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  physicists for years, and though I may feel like I know better at times, I ... popular at MIT or not? Yes? No? What do you think of when you think ... at MIT- and 5 of them are women. Luckily, the ratio of men to women

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  for the second short essay: can you tell me (at least three days before ... high school). Will the admissions office look at things like that? As for ... other school, for that matter) for at least a few months, as now begins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... mode that I have to exist in, at least for now. This Thanksgiving break ... at another school, and I'd say, "Well, I really don't like that, so I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt ... see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  , but kudos to them for doing so. We had a few hours of free time back at ... addition to this post. We also recently performed our Brazilian music at MIT ... first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  bedsheets in 351. I stayed in that bed for days at a time during my first IAP, unable to force myself out of bed to eat, staring at the ceiling for hours ... aggressively bad at reading maps. Notoriously, infamously, comically bad at it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022