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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently than I did now that I can look back on and think about the different ways

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  weekend, i knew i'd spend a lot of time on the hunt, and i was really prepared to spend my whole weekend on it. and yeah, i had an awesome time. i ... burst of direction. not running away from home, not any college acceptance

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  , poured rum over the icing of one of the cakes, and set it on fire. The ... prettily cloudy. Lab goes until 6, and then I’ll head home, run, make dinner ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets ... many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  as 11 pm, and I come home exhausted. 8-9 hours of sleep does wonders ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my ... would have gone if I had lied about any one of my errors. Honesty works

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  shows while I was there, Allegiance and Fun Home. Allegiance told the story of Japanese-American internment camps, and featured an entirely Asian-American cast and primarily Asian-American creative team. Fun Home

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  California for Christmas, enjoying balmy daytime weather and good home cooking ... of the burdens of adjustment and culture shock. I've been busy ... various personal and professional goals. And I've been getting a lot of rest

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home ... top of the page, there's a high-rise (16 floors total) and a low-rise (4 ... and a nice chunk of money to do with it what they wish. My entry, for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  lied and told us it was cancelled on account of rain. Then we had actually planned to their home stadium and just randomly spectate at one of ... picture and be reminded of the trauma. Sorry, Megan '08! After that, we sat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  windchill hit -20, or that time someone said something stupid on gchat and I ... got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to ... freshmen) while she was at home over IAP, and for some reason our connection

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  ="Cameron: except of course North Dakota and Florida."]any other state in the ... stores on top of other stores, and food can just be delivered to your door ... : Based on empirics, mostly sleep, but I do love hiking quite a bit, and, of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  , they're apparently out of print and available only on certain online ... Television Stars and Celebrity Poker Showdown, both of which featured Charla ... to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  pretty much every aspect of freshman life at MIT. I love this school and ... guy, semi-guest-blogging on his computer because I'm bored and have a ... be going well at this point, all of the phones are still filled, and we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust ... and an A on the assignment -- heck, I could. But if you try to do that ... schoolwork with all of the fun things that you feel obligated to run off and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and ... glitches on both ends. And speaking of debugging Another kind of debugging ... going on, and I’m still trying to get a deep sense of what this semester

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  , I wouldn't expect to come home and work on those problem sets. Try to ... beginning of my MIT career, I spent a lot of my time humbling myself and ... younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  eating a ton of office snacks all the time. however, god did not put me on ... some specific significance to people I met, adventures I went on, and ... music as much, which is sad. i'll try to get back on that. God of War

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  omitting of the oxford comma, and comma frequency in general might be ... 'oh' ill go 'o' and stuff like that btw none of these styles were ... work at some point in the middle of the semester and you're so caught up

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  , each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... -3 weeks of work, meetings, and emails into a tight abstract). At the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  at the end of the twelve weeks I could go home and nobody would be any ... city and wandering, enjoying the mere pleasures of life, and scarcely ... try,' or 'to attempt', and is the root of the english word 'essay'; or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022