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  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  run by undergrads who can get paid for their efforts through UROP ... Edgerton's collegues happened to drop by to say hi. I am so not kidding. I ... Cambridge for some conference or another, so he decided to stop by and ask for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  'm talking the Pell Disbursement Record from COD here) doesn't get to MIT by ... side-by-side number comparisons of schools. It is time to focus on the ... Fernando '10 to MIT! On the topic of the reply form, we do expect to get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  and he kept trying to get us to play road games and sings songs about ... to the trail we needed to follow to get to Nancy Cascades. We made ... . Eventually we made it to the actual Nancy Cascades trail, marked by some bloody

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  my decision was. My dad didn't force me to go to MIT, don't get me ... school. Nothing to get depressed over, really. I guess it's clear that ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  thought there was no better way to summarize second semester than by ... , reservations were (understandably) very hard to come by. The only available time ... food I’ve had access to this semester.) By the time our enormous dessert

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my ... visited the Coop. There I found this:Do you get it? :)Then I went back to ... up to give a talk, and embarrassed a couple kids by bringing them up to

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being ... time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... . However, on Saturday I felt that I had enough time to both get some psets

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and ... thoroughly explored chemical compound and then getting to perform any reactions ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  emotions to create a lens I can use to view my worm. I get to see how I’ve changed over time. I get to remember the good and the bad. MIT, and I ... Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... assume were red highlights. I didn't stick around long enough to get an ... So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  need to find a way to understand. Freshman Taylor did not get this at ... to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... , “What can I do today to get just a little better today than I was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... seemed to come from the cultural difference. I was trying to get used to ... people impacted me, these people I was getting to know beyond layers of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , I get to haul a soggy pile of clothes from the washer to a dryer on ... neither are difficult Sundays, but it gets the job done. Here's to another ... , dropped isn't the correct word. I neglected to [annotation note="I am so, so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019: Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  measure the accuracy of the midpoint measurement by comparing it to existing ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by ... couldn’t meet her, or get her to sign the two books that I brought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to ... to explore leadership (FLP!, Leadershape, and iHouse! =p). By teaching

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... get taken. the third row goes from just me, to another person near the ... ever get to do these? would anyone ever do this for me? five three years

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... is going to look like until you get it developed, and you can't just go ... ="48932" /] Postcards and snail mail. It feels nice to get a postcard in the mail, so I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021