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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  estimate. I sent those 28 shirts off to a nice Etsy store that turns your old ... , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college ... 've loved my UROP so much - I get to make a thing, test it, and write a paper

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  assassins. the premise is simple: everyone gets a randomized target, and your goal is to assassinate your target. you win when you're the last person ... your jeans to thread the bandana through. you're killed if your hunter

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... concept with which you're having trouble. Due to MIT's General Institute

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• 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 ... good afterwards…” “Look, yeah, I get you’re trying to make me feel ... , their decisions are real enough to be on your mind, but not all real

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a ... connects to a rubber septum, which allows us to get samples by sticking a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  ) and we walked through a narrow corridor to get to Clam, from where we ... MIT. I held fun, but brief, conversations with Mariia trying to get to ... Cat Zella and having her wildly run around kitchen to get rid of her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  , including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get ... trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  learned a lot the hard way lol. I also should've taped the sides to get ... speed. My ability to get away with not-so-healthy decisions without facing ... -day challenge they posed at the end of the documentary which was to get rid of one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  Focus on getting educated. Learn to talk. models for thinking . Use your ... your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to recover. Trust me: You're better off learning to balance ambition and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  [/annotation] for at least one semester. Find something fun to do with your extra time ... typical) but as someone (maybe a child) who knows how to get places ... to class 1 minute faster.[/annotation] Have your picture/video taken

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  . Conceptualizing FIRST THINGS FIRST, YOU NEED TO HAVE AN IDEA. 1. Create your ... it feels more official. 3. Draw your storyboards. Get an idea of what you want your scenes to look like, from the location, angles, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... to wander betwixt all the floors, get even more free food (with the ... side of Burton Conner, known as Conner 3, was fortunate enough to get

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... ’t even find the energy to think that getting out of bed in the morning is ... thing to do. JOHN: what if i get distracted because i’m sad? JOHN: what if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align ... was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : N/A   Ok. Now let’s get to the juicy stuff.   21W.755 ... your heart of gold Ian) and my professor eventually agreed to let me turn ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues ... fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  . Most dorms allow you to paint your walls. Simmons allows it as long as it gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the ... if you aren’t artistically inclined, you can get your hands on

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... seminar also serves as your freshman advisor. This way, you get to know the ... your advisor has been to some of the best restaurants in Boston and loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  classes get rejected. Why? Because often these kids knew how to grind, but ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college ... spots and 70% of the pool has great numbers, your pool is going to have

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005