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  RA Selection Day 6

  

  ), and getting ready to head off to my usual Tuesday night trivia contest ... Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... days, followed by several weeks of solidifying the class, selecting the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  seven places to P-Set: 1. Quincy Market, Upstairs by the GAP This is ... sidetracked by watching dogs chase squirrels up trees. I come here to work on my ... down this one road that was awfully hilly. To get to the point of the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  basically is looking for? And how can I actually get to catch the eye of the ... for another school, by all means submit it to us in the "optional essay ... around 550 words. Are the admissions counselors going to get mad over that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't actually that easy to lose getting into routines is hard falling out of ... somewhere that's not boston. i want to get out of boston. living in LA ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  to the Bay Area, followed by a trip to the Rocky Mountains and finally ... answer. Getting out on the road to meet you is one of our favorite times of ... America to meet with prospective applicants and parents in more than 70

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... going to wah-wah-wah through complaints like, "What if I get a bad grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  Last night the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club sponsored a demonstration by ... decided to head down to the athletic center to check it out. I happened to be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill ... , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT ... . It almost makes me want to stop writing my usual blog entries about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  by working with each other, being introduced to some material in class ... . We changed our method of ball deployment from one by one to all at once ... when it started getting rough. Now that we had a strategy it was time to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  into them if you really want to. If you don't get your first choice HASS-D, there are usually open spots by the first day of class, and you can go to ... . Also, how did you manage to get your experimental procedures done within

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  up for games. i've been getting burnt out by many things, these days ... to live a year longer. if i could recruit other people, get them to run for officership, get them to see my vision, maybe it'd last a few more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  deviation will almost surely be corrected by another deviation to the right ... there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  happened, but I’ve got to get back to making pretty pictures for my ... come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot ... ). And it took under 10 minutes to get there. It takes less time to get ice ... -- and ours had to be "custom configured" by Adam since Macgregor has

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  are two ways to get to New York from Boston, both departing from South ... make you happy when you win them? Well, I wanted to get a picture of ... Q was actually the perfect way to get rid of it and transition into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  there's one thing I don't want to do after getting home late, it's study ... had given lip service to the idea that you could get a research job, if ... manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the Nov. 1 ... . Slideroom portfolios need to be submitted by the November 1 deadline. Like

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super ... ! I'm still getting used to filming important things in my life, as I ... I was inspired by Ceri's take on VEDA and partly by my long

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021