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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  ) the next day and over the course of a week, I worked in a group with two ... alarm clock will decide to not work on that day and I will be left with an ... making you think outside the box and pound your head with the nearest

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent ... campus six years ago I took every opportunity to talk with current students ... my first 5K last year with two sisters and a member of one of our

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent ... sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my ... an entire conversation with a guy across the plane, using only our eyes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  with the uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the ... this email address in mid-late April with an update on what you've ... . Bombard our office with way too much stuff. Be pushy. Be sketchy. Let your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  stuff off at Random and left and finally I was alone with my boxes and my ... you graduate. With luck, the amazing things you do will be much more ... fill your days with that, and decisions will be here before you know it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  issue primarily with contemporary political propaganda. As he wrote: In ... college application essays is the advice dispensed by books with names like ... these books, from the titles on down, is so suffused with self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  from a girl with green hair, who is now a close friend. I built things. I ... with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag ... homework over CPW, you’re doing CPW wrong. Not food. You’ll get a card with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with ... with since I'd done really well in BC calc, but decided to take anyway. I ... . Eventually I came to grips with the apparent knowledge that my homework, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  the second, I was newly done with high school, and better able to ... square with only a few hours of daylight left which I hoped not to spend in ... pants with skinny jeans and any odd jackets with awkwardly plaid shirts

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... get to know the tools that they'll be working with later on, but I think it's always pretty awesome to see what people come up with :) We

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  , you'll get to interact with a sampling of the most active groups on ... contrasts with the real "Activities Fair" on Saturday where we have ... smaller living groups - iHouse is one of them) battle it out with a variety

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  tournament champions with the long sought-after trophy: Captains Jason Uh ... the Big Red – with two tournaments left to go. To keep the grand ... divided by their belt levels, with each group lined up sitting around its

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  noisemakers, screaming themselves hoarse with chants, with every emotion they ... a soldering iron but how to interact with others in the spirit of ... , science, and technology; to endow them with the time-management and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  -semester senior with two classes and a swim test* left between her and graduation ... I was a TA for a neuroscience class this summer at nerd camp? With ... had too much on my plate to do anything with them, but not anymore

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... . I realize that I'm posting this in conjunction with the Admitted blog ... already known that climbing this cliff with one's bare hands is impossible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  , Justin '08, is actually being featured on inc.com (along with his co ... Minsky, and my future image of myself was in a white coat tinkering with ... -deep in MATLAB dealing with microphone noise and trying to figure out what

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  life. That struggle for life culminated on Wednesday last week with a 3 ... ! Barrel of Monkeys hanging from the Lobby 7 skylight! Complete with ... 100% definitely class average). After that I was done. Done. Done with

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  . I always feel guilty putting up an entry with no pictures, so randomly interspersed throughout this post will be pictures that have nothing to do with ... one of those days, only with a break for blogging. So here's how

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  also happened to have my laptop with me...and there was wireless in the ... he was re-enacting these superhero comics with his childhood friends ... sense, collaborate with each other, in the sense that a novel is only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... entrants: I was, at times, in the chat group with Omar (in the picture of ... So, I won’t bore you with too much redundant recounting. Quickly

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008