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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was ... What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was ... time around, summer is over and school is starting (although not for a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was ... the AP exam, to 1) prepare us for the exams even more, and 2) allow us ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  extraordinarily grateful for the education I've received at MIT which has prepared ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  Omnibus, so it's time for more odds & ends... The band Hot Hot Heat will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night ... (December 15), among others. (Death Cab for Cutie was here last week, Rob

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... . Today, Prof. Richard Schrock, along with researchers in France and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  to strive for the best, but at the same time, the spirit goes that ... student that to meet them at 3 in building 3 for 3.003 in course 3, and they’ll know that means to meet them at 3 pm in the maclaurin buildings for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  for the first time,[/annotation] in my sixth semester here at MIT, and ... , about the mission of care that the students at this school have for each ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  jockeying for social status and acceptance in teenage hormone land, otherwise known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which ... look back at the things you've done. When I started filling out my MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now ... projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed. (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at ... wonderful college experience that I wouldn't trade for anything, at a school ... # of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  probably screwed. in other words, by the time he knows to look for the other ... play, i noticed a pattern that i was not able to explain at the time ... happened. for the most part, each round in bloons tower defense is harder

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  postcards picked up at a writing conference many states away. I moved the lamp ... Philly. It was called AWP, which stands for the Association of Writers & ... .  Apparently the UA Committee funds travel grants for MIT students to attend

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  ’t at all sure how to write it. I wasn’t there for the whole time, to ... race to 2021. For those of you more technical folk, Nimby was car #4 at ... ’s looking at. I am completely unrecognizable.   Yet she stands there for an

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  minors meet every month for dinners at Area 4, a pizza restaurant with the ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  site -- for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics ... may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... them in time for our review. If you do not send them directly and plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  . Look at what we do for you. We almost fell prey to a demon ... application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I insist on denying that the future is rushing towards me at a terrifying ... mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  'm at Rotch, and I've milked Barton for books already. Then I milk Vera ... the Green Line) for 2 days, and this past summer I lived at the Boston ... : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is ... first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  citizen, but for the last 8 years I have been in the UK at boarding school ... ¬іm brazilian academical and want discover if it¬іs possible study at MIT for six ... ask me questions any time; you don't just have to wait for a blog entry

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006