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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you're ... , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  getting closer! 10:45am: A quick walk through Lobby 7, soon to be the site ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... feelings on the subject, met with the RBA coordinator to discuss my ... in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... 't get the movie back on and he was just going to drive to Portland. So, I ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  Best Way to Make a Difference," and he focused largely on education ... : "Hey, what question did your friend want us to ask him again?" Me: "'What ... person affect your life?" To which Bill Gates responded, in complete

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out ... the desert landscape would be so familiar to me, even though on the ... notwithstanding, this is when you get your shit together for the semester ahead

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted ... . Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during ... handle on what that means now. I haven't pulled an all-nighter yet to do

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  -viral on Facebook last semester. The caption was: "Death came to personally ... dresses up nice and goes out to dinner. I'm sure this list will get longer and longer as the semester goes on, and I don't expect to finish

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  as start to get to know the people I'm going to spend the next four ... 's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever ... toast, or powdery snow on a sunny day. When everything sucks, try to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... enough in itself to entice me to explore new opportunities, this invitation

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I had some more excerpts from stuff to post here. Regarding Handel ... your genes." Sitting in Lobby 10 with Ruth '07, contemplating buying an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school ... you feel like you're not actually the right fit. To know that you have MIT in your sights shows that you must believe in yourself to some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of ... school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... 's anxieties and pressure from others. But before you let it get to you, remember

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E ... on inevitability, the sense that a thing will get done if I show up ... you were, for the first time in your life, too exhausted to write when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  national average). From there he went to a New York law firm, then to the NHL ... ) before he got appointed, to sort of get the definite okay," said Federer ... blog readership will be excited to learn this fact. Adam Helfant, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... New England Regional (more details here). Now I've been to sports games

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  get ready for the day. My time over on campus goes from about 10 ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018