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  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  Activities Office is bringing hip-hop/funk group N.E.R.D to campus for Spring ... Hello all! I’m just popping in to show you guys a video from an ... their annual Chinese New Year Banquet. There were plenty food, skits

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  particularly hard pset, clear my to-do list for the first time in months, get ... us to get ready to go only to sit down for another round of coffee ... post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  managed to make it into the middle of the line to get a ticket for the 10 ... there pretty fast - 6:22, with 2 minutes to spare before the bus actually ... [annotation note="turns out that when it's too early for there to be traffic

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by ... means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... of FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts...very unfortunately nicknamed "furbies" by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  time to get comfortable riding down again, but Jayden learned pretty fast ... slept for the whole trip).   Once we got to Wachusett, they had ... the falling part… It's the part where you start going too fast to the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  them know how to cook, and day by day we’re finding a schedule. I ... besides, there are so many Zoom gatherings for frosh and upperclassmen to ... . I feel like I’ve slogged through so much high school just to get to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  main street we went into the cafeteria and were spoken to by many members ... open to the toy trade only. It is staged by the Toy Industry Association. The show is claimed by the promoters to be the largest toy trade show in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  , to “get by”, but far below what it felt like to be swimming in new ... fraternity was getting new members. I had ideas for a second novel, Nkem, and ... . There’s been getting to know the new friends in my life, both at the dorm

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . 3. Get to the Hatch Shell early and get a wristband for the night ... series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after ... entire day, I went to Quincy Market for chowda for lunch (the American meal

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  I've drawn enough Lewis structures to satisfy me for awhile. When I ... seagreen paint next to the X office" or "cute cat, call xxxx for more ... who scan reuse for computer parts to build random cool things. For real

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the ... standardized test scores have been sent to MIT. Our College Board Code (for SAT ... great time to register for the January administration of the tests, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  the credit for those classes. ASEs are created by the department that ... class. If you take the ASE, the grade you get on the test stands in for a ... as you pass the test, you get full credit for having taken the GIR, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  , we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life, so applying to internships or looking for summer UROPs just wasn ... that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  assessments for entering M.I.T. freshmen. He fears that the new 25-minute SAT ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  forced myself to get up early to skate from 8-9am before by 9am. I usually ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... leaving MIT for a semester would make it harder for us to adjust back to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  changes.  Overall, WISE is a valuable time for students to get advice from ... decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... apply to. But she wasn’t genuinely considering it. “I didn’t think I’d get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  portal gets updated for new information (if it haven't already ... easy for awhile. Spend some time with your parents, go out to a movie ... graduating sooner than you think. 6,939,937. GET PUMPED for Campus Preview

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  summer after my freshman year I went to Germany for two months as part of ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing ... for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022