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• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in ... holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work ... 2025. Getting to "meet" so many capable, compassionate students through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Google Drive. Already a struggle to stay relevant in the two years since I ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college ... ), to get responses from MIT admissions officers and students. I think MIT ... the blogs extend that to prospective students. The print and web

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  , it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera ... asked my lab supervisors to talk with me in German, I'm getting an ... , was enough to get me a great plate of gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... interested in getting to know me- personally- other than my resume, or my ... day, I made a Target run to get eggs (about two minute’s walk from my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  disappear? To settle the debate, the Page lab sequenced the Y chromosome of ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic ... -specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Muthukrishna, just graduated and is off to get his PhD. He helped catch me up to ... astrophysics. Coming from an EECS background, I had to Google some of the astro

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  to get a gnome stuck in a perfect up-down position and could only ... quickly. Getting into one can save a dying run, and timing boosts to enter ... could wait a bit longer while in the catapult to get launched backwards

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  , studying 2.001 for my final on Tuesday. For that final we get 4 pages of ... experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go ... the solutions, that way I have something to look at if I get stuck. This

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... "Apple fanboy." Neither does my dad, who is about as far as you can get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... opposed to memorizing everything. For me, it's all about getting enough ... studying, I'm on fire. But it's often hard to get into that state of high and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced ... Gregor, meaning I get to send a lot of passive aggressive emails about people doing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you ... doting quite flattering, to be honest, and it's been very sweet to see how many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  to don costumes and wander around to all the MacGregor GRTs to get some ... college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... M. '18, recieved some of those stringy spider webs in the mail. Pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... full report, which is 42 pages (42! Ha! I just noticed that!) here. If

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... . Gets to my recitation class with cold feet, literally. Runs out of milk

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018