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

  

  of visiting the Museum of Science for the first time, and going trick ... at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I

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

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  , even without getting into the whole programming side of the device. I ... of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn'

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  Institute director and biology professor David Page on the evolution of the Y ... I don't usually watch TV but recently I saw a few episodes of The ... (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  I actually liked reading the textbook. We'd watch a whole bunch of ... 'm taking the writing class for a couple reasons - first, I have a lot of fun ... Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... this summer and that I should perhaps fix the formatting of my résumé and ... the list of companies beforehand and had a rough idea of what industries

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  fellows); and of course there's the whole dressing up for class thing. (I ... sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like ... - like Sam, who does a beautiful Flight of the Conchords impression, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  minor stuff. On the whole, we get along well, we share a lot of the same ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... , with nearly all of the remaining students remaining on campus in dorms

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every page contained one of our names on it, saying we were all traveling off ... 't really think much of it. I really wasn't dreaming of all the places I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  you think the entry sucks, keep your mouth shut. =P First let's start with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you ... other side of the room. Anyway, the TV room is a cool place to hang out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that ... and flipped through the pages until I saw this: (Images belong to ... Occupy protesters. And that's the story of how procrastination doesn't get

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  : If I will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date ... your QuestBridge application is being used in place of the MIT ... the results of the National College Match. If you are not matched with

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the ... first heard them say it. They said "Oh, the people are different..." or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in the country where they study.
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... of the upper-level classes/labs are only available in the fall or spring semester"]one of the less flexible majors,[/annotation]which makes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming ... home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company ... company looks like, and were introduced to many of the monetary and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... in the comments and apologize. Best case scenario is of course, that ... you are a QB applicant, along with full name and date of birth on the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... end of the paper, the paper won't immediately tear like you might first ... interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024