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• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  --I worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even ... to at least get a decent grade. But now that’s mostly over--my classes ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what ... been in the middle of a great book - How Doctors Think, by Dr. Gerome

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  to be evil. Why? Here's what it looks like. Problem 1/ a -- s Problem ... 're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts ... so a bunch of us wandered into Boston to check it out. While I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not ... to get the attention of the representative. While maybe not as

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  formatting related issues. 8. Find a way to motivate yourself by setting goals ... getting the job done, try teaming up with a friend to hold each other ... Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total ... it. I know I will be. Really bad photos to follow. Also, if you

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

  Decision letters mailed

  

  to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... . So I went to Amazon and complained and they said they would send a ... together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this ... start by acknowledging that if the most important thing to you is a ... me. I may post some photos in a future entry. Anyway, I will get to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  wanted to talk to me as a homeschooler. At some point, the organizer got ... friends later forced him to go to law school. And there were a couple of MIT ... to groovy concerts with! When you were a prospective frosh, were there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart ... students they meet. To give up a gorgeous weekend afternoon to sit in a meeting room in a library says a lot about their commitment to the process

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... uncle, I'm proud to be a Korean. But I've never really held any negative ... , my parents were planning on going to a wedding in Korea and decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually ... . I had already committed to MIT prior to getting on the plane, so I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head ... conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  so, we went to the lobby to check out and get a cab to the airport. I ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... that you can't really get everything out of a movie by reading its ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to ... in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word ... him to an idiot, a lunatic, a catatonic.” 1am: i climb onto my bed

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things ... since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of ... into the dusky afternoon sky, and was hit suddenly and thoroughly by a

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010