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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  , you won't get the result you want on your first try, but you have to ... sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to ... you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder ... really want you guys to like MIT and appreciate all the things it can do

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  'm there, but hate getting there. :-) No worries though - by the time I see ... shouldn't come - you'll still get to meet the alumni interviewers for your ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  could get better before having to take the tests. It was really easy, and ... than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like ... readers to not immediately get everything and have to read through multiple ... all. it seems so easy to be hurt or happy by silly little sounds that we

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  to me. 2) I was serious about getting an internship.   See ... brushed it right back off thinking to myself "Oh, no one get internships ... was expected of me to get it. That made me feel invigorated enough to go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before ... joyously singing (atleast the words we knew) to "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley and "Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways. No way! "Come and Get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events ... interested students were disappointed that they did not live close enough to Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months! Kris was kind enough to let me guest

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  N4 O2 (sorry, I can't get subscripts to work) Well, I'm off to ... In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  specific types of content. Second, I've decided to display portlet content by ... with the authors of our features. I think we'll be able to get there in ... seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  (Humanities, Arts and Social Science) office, which then gets turned in to both ... and as easy as it is to get there, though, at times it can feel like I ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the ... struggling to get the whole thing to fit together just right. All of their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... about their own approach to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one ... nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  sure to get our feedback for our weekly quizzes, too. I was really just ... trip!" - said by my professor after he had to exit his building due to a ... class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... me: 1. Listen. Ask people to lunch or to coffee and just get to know ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  Wow, most exciting/eventful two days ever. I'm very sad to say that 2.007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  attach slippery objects to my feet and get on a frozen chair dangling from ... miracle I am able to get back down without killing myself, I'm supposed to ... puzzled by my comment "Mens et manus in corpore sano", which was intended to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  ending!) Anyway, the best advice I have for you is to get really excited ... depite their disappointments. Be inspired by them- getting into MIT (or not ... background and ability to pay (why else would I get bullied in to sending in my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... when I get back to campus it'll be back to IHTFP, but in some weird

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009