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  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  't recommend taking it as a program to pad your MIT application (something I get ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The ... 's incredibly soothing to have something moving and alive in your room at all

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... excuses, and this Thanksgiving trip was the catalyst I needed to get started ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  , brace yourself for lift-off or landing. Get to know your professors and ... pressure to get into relationships, have sex, drink, or otherwise lose your ... questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  competitions in order to get into MIT!) I remember standing on the field with the ... 's weird to see a team be better in your absence. At the Awards Ceremony ...  won an £11,000 grant from Google Rise to start new FIRST LegoLeague teams

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  had planned out a google doc of logistics the day before. due to ... get second place. i also had to do a lot of revising after my first ... scrolled through my calendar and recollected the events so now you get to see

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a ... VR. If you guys want to get involved as well, I suggest buying a pair or getting the much cheaper Google Cardboard, which works with any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... stars really started to align. First, Google announced its Willow quantum ... like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT ... . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the advertisements on your spam folder page in Gmail.) 5. Write thank-you letters to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  what you'd like your user ID to be (you get to pick) -- keeping in mind ... mad that makes me, especially since I would really like to get my ... book too. (There used to be a website where MIT students bought and sold

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  our website. Instrumentalists are generally asked to perform any short ... Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing ... -led music groups over the past year, but we also get lots of questions from

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get ... 's remote, though" which, yes, true. But I was just happy to get one in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This ... unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the ... way to turn in your life.” i am an advanced squirrel working on a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  chances of getting into MIT?? and if so, then by how much?" I'm sure your ... , but during Campus Preview Weekend, I do get to put a lot of faces with ... and if it is, where we can find the adress to that website." We will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  & Comp homework out of the way before I get too tired to function. So ... --just logged onto his computer, went to a handy-dandy website, ordered, paid ... interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too ... like the world is your oyster. If you’re willing to put yourself out ... to define it. And whether your interning at a top tech company or

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018