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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... nervewracking to realize that you're no longer the class brain, and that you can't sleepwalk your way to perfect grades anymore. My first semester at MIT, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  try and get things done to graduate in June (eeep! real world! yikes ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is invigorating. The hush, the electric cold tingling your lungs with every breath

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  before because i was so focused on just getting work done. i’m so profoundly grateful that this field of study even exists, that i get to do work ... that i get to be here, doing the things i’m doing. sometimes there are

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  fortunate coincidence) so I was able to get the individual house presidents on board. The New House 3 president asked me where we were planning to get ... giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  possible to get through. Documents can take up to 3 weeks to appear on your ... moment! To submit Parts 1 and 2, log in to your account on MyMIT. You can ... application materials, and are waiting for it to appear on your My

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  passed (along with most of New Haven) on our way to Science Hill: By ... keep your eyes open, and get on some mailing lists. :) Til next time ... it I try not to walk around New Haven with an expensive camera slinging

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  getting to campus. If you're arriving by air, you can take the airport ... that packet of information on Saturday, and, if so, where do I go to get ... ! Anonymous asked, "Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... whether your dress is something that you want me to focus on, as opposed to ... 't connect still do your best to talk about yourself and your interests. That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  informal): Please use the space below to comment on what your school could ... from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  ’m planning on a video blog for next time (try to contain your excitement). Post ... and congratulations to our new provost - Professor Chris Kaiser. You can ... .D ’87 represent!). I’m going to miss him, although our new lecturer is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  and, dare I say, interesting. It was a LOT of material to get through ... in class we got to break away fromo background information to get some hands-on, practical experience. I now know how to use a sphygmomanometer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  BE HONEST on your application. Don't change your honest answer to ... order, which often happens on surveys we're asked to fill out. It ... 6-3, which correspond to emphasis on electrical engineering (EE) over

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put ... feels like home. But on one level, I've come to realize South Bend is only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  neutralizing any of the spice, you’re gonna have a hell of a time on the toilet ... , you are to bet your pronouns, or the letters of your name, or both. I ... tried to kick a small target on someone who’s running away from me. By the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... , their decisions are real enough to be on your mind, but not all real ... good afterwards…” “Look, yeah, I get you’re trying to make me feel

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  :28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef ... modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 ... : Stop by the Balfour booth to get my ring resized. All the running this

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  right there with year-ago-me. Yay, you now know where you're going to college (MIT, clearly), your teachers have given up on trying to make you ... can just add their answers to the game you're working on. So have at it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  weekend, I blew off steam by going on retreat with my hall (3rd East) to New ... . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , for having taking the reins on my life and fighting my way to get here ... him when he gets deferred. i want to tell him, hey! i struggle, and have ... , this weekend, working on a puzzlehunt, from 6 pm on friday to midnight on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020