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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  hate cleaning my room. 62. I tend to get jealous very easily. 63. I love ... /people getting hurt/abused. 66. I want to go to Greece. 67. I don't like to study ... more motivated when it comes to school. 97. I love getting stuff in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  entrance to universities in your home country. We understand that many grades ... schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your ... you submit your high school transcript with three years of grades and
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  , seeing as my immediate reaction to getting sick was thinking that this was ... People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry in an effort to get back into ... narrowed it (haha, get it, ultimately) to JMS's Amazing Spider-Man run or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... friends asked me if i wanted to get an apartment with them. i agreed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into ... on that later), so I need to get some experiments finished up before

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to get involved in student government, because the only student ... the time. What eventually motivated me to get involved with the UA was ... Steve Kelch '08 as my running mate. There were three tickets. We lost to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... other, miscellaneous things to worry about but combine them together, and ... about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  feel like you're stagnating. Sometimes, you have to really reflect on ... perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... sourdough starter, what would your name be?" My mom: "Shuli, obviously. That

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  walk to your drawers and pull out digital work files, or find your movie ... Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  return. What's that, Andrew? You'd like to give me your signing bonus after ... annual observance, I am glad to have brought some of my culture to yours ... to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him ... left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... of my red hair. It's really strange being away from home and getting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go to chem lecture today, walking across the East Campus courtyard where ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I ... the time I randomly get the urge to make something it feels like I ... pursuits feel like this to me   it's kinda funny being at the whims

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022