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  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  week to get out 14 NEW BROTHERS (note the excitement). Anyhoo, for those ... , then you're correct. So this past weekend, my fraternity hosted a party ... invite our friends over to our house to enjoy some dessert, smooth jazz

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  from all over come to MIT to compete to solve insane brain teasers with hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for ... constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure ... was obsessed (obsessed) with getting the team to Nationals (I didn ... got just dark enough for someone to get injured on playground equipment

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  night becaue you thought you'd get better rest on the plane, when you're ... 's probably time to get my shoes back on. Three weeks filled with neuroscience ... practice, and a couple long shifts on the ambulance before I get to fly back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  students, when you made up your college list, did you apply to the most ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you're ... here writing this entry. Summers are a great time to focus your energies ... -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... to better understand you and your achievements. ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one student to know where all the makerspaces are. PhD student Rima Das is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of ... collaborate, work with others, and rely on your peers and classmates to succeed. It's a way to teach you that you aren't alone and that your weaknesses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  try to always make the best decision, your life will later read back as ... blindered by your work that you will never be able to look around and see what ... change your life for the better. It can be hard to avoid the treadmill

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  you want to be when you grow up. Eventually, you'll get there. And it ... up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We used the phrase when we were little, starting at around kindegarden, to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  should take another picture at the end but we didn't get the time to do so ... requirements of two majors to get a double degree, rather than a simple double major. This means you get two diplomas at graduation. Probably to decrease

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  side-effect from being here for so long - you become tethered to your ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break ... 't get started until winter break. My zeroth step was to clean my door

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  lonely? But I also adore a wide-open schedule, getting to watch whatever I ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  'm pretty sure that you're a bit more likely to get a bid if you appear on one ... for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members ... couple of things I want to touch on when answering your question. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  , used to get 'em Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em.” such ... of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  biology, architecture and computer programming to design fashionable ... independent designers are producing pieces with scientific content, and Jesse ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011