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  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... ? What did he recommend I do as a freshman? What were some events and ... years ago I had mine for MIT, and I had no idea what I was doing coming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more simply to not do an assignment, or not study for a test. One might do that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  time playing video games while he would use his time doing productive ... talked about what they were currently doing with their 6-3 degrees. I ... exactly what I wanted to do. The perfect combination of math and problem

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  , for the office, or for CMS. So we did what MIT people always do when ... all of the digital things that I do? Do not be afraid. We have hired on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do they not like and what do they absolutely love about it? Wouldn't it be ... important it was to talk to strangers, not just about what they do to conserve

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  do? Me: ...er, I'm sorry, what do you mean by that? Staff: Like, what does it do. Me: ...it collects solar energy, and uses it to charge things

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  worth it. I take it all in and try to just do it. Sometimes I fail ... Jedi mind tricks). You start to feel like you need to do everything and ... do it all now. It's okay to jog instead of run. Keep up at a steady

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  and gives an hands-on experience doing it from start to finish, and 2 ... finding some place for PE credit (climbing again? don't mind if I do!) It ... far. I'm more productive when I have a lot to do.   ??? There

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... to give jobs to. I've spent the past two IAPs doing internships for ... it out! I won't make any money if you do; in fact, the Amazon S3 bucket

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  students whose schools do not provide any midyear grades, homeschooled students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a ... list the quarter grades and the midterm exam grade. (Do not create your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ample down time for doing things with your friends. I've been working with ... management so much, but there are dozens of us. So what do I do with such a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan ... /internship applications. Anyway, long story short—While I was doing market research, I ... exactly what we were designing Slate E&D to do, excect we were planning

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  work I have to do, I remember the opportunities I've had to learn from ... hard to understand...) At that time, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life but I at least knew that I wanted to be doing something

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  about something you do for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer ... you must apply. We do not have preferences or different admission rates ... do so with the knowledge that it will not disadvantage your application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  .13 reaction: who cares? How do you even pronounce “amines”, anyway?” The post-5 ... that your human existence depends on. Do you recognize this guy? This ... .” This is more related than you would think to... 21L.301: Doing Right This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  away enough free time to do more science? Is it vanity? Is it masochism ... postmodern literature. Stumbling toward the nearest couch, I am about to do ... is something as straightforward as doing algorithms homework outside

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the ... numbed themselves to survive the camps. So do astronomers deaden themselves ... exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.) Does the average astronomer doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... , definitely do not have cultures that everyone is drawn to. Thus, I know of many ... as LGBTQ?” and “How often do people in your living group use words such

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Sciences lab, or somewhere else? Do I even get to be paid for this stuff? And ... challenging for me :p   Studying a ton for 5.12, and doing a 9.00 essay / laundry. Wait, that sounds like my actual to-do list... If you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011