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  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT ... - even moreso now that I've been through a complete cycle at MIT. I was ... immediately. I was wrong (although I am better than last year, for sure). I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even ... (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... for a whole day. Breakfast: I love Frosted Flakes. Really I do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  pipet all day. And then I come home at night and watch Law and Order: SVU ... greasy. We also found some great low-fat ice cream sandwiches at the ... low-fat Cool Whip to satisfy my sweet tooth. I am lucky for two things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep ... and cram. Really. 3. Shopping is therapy. 4. Naps: they're not just for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  year. What more can you ask for? Tonight is the [annotation note ... -the-scenes for the capstone projects themselves, and this blog is instead about the ... excited. (watch the livecast here if you want to join us for the ride

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... Myers–Briggs personality types. It stands for introversion, intuition ... new image for reasons I struggle to justify now.  Was it because I felt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT ... doesn't work for pro athletes and it won't work for you. Don't use the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  around for a few minutes. We talk about CPW, and when our prefrosh are ... weekend events. It takes maybe half an hour for all the prefrosh to arrive ... , while we talk about decisions. What are you looking for? What are your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  California for ten years now, but unlike other sun-loving transplants, I ... , crispy leaves ripe for the leaping, apple picking, cinnamon and nutmeg ... pie I found on the internet for all you visual learners out there. Two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the ... things you can find just by looking around on the site -- for example

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they ... introduced for Team Hamentashen. We're all receiving paper plates in the ... of "LOL I'M AT MIT AND GLAGLASDKGHSJDHGLKJSFDH" <- That's the sound

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  explanation i can give is that, for me at least, Important Real-World Problems ... it happens once or twice, or when they have good reasons for doing it ... ; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a ... on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... that when my friend looks at my life they conclude that i can do anything, yet when i look at my life i genuinely feel like i’m able to do nothing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  AGAIN FOR THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY WITH SOME MORE ... friend Charlotte M. ‘20 after having an angsty conversation at around 2 am ... named. Then, at the end of a meeting of a club we’re all part of, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  for five months, planning a month long book drive at our middle school ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to start the essay. Of course, it's different for everyone. But I found that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... in Maseeh 1) It’s new. Or at least it feels that way. Maseeh used be a swanky hotel in the early 1900’s, then it was a grad dorm for 70 years, so

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli ... UROP program. The research opportunities for undergraduates at MIT are ... 'll admit that I chose MIT and that the decision (for me) wasn't very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6 ... reach the bottom of the screen. I chose Guitar Hero for this project

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024