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• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... AppleCare!" DEPRESSION: After sending the Mac to a third-party Apple ... somewhere that MIT students can theoretically get by without owning a laptop

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  , but sometimes the professors want you to get the newest one. ... ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  . "The path to success doesn't open by eliminating failure. If you want to ... by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  you get the state police, who redirect it to Cambridge, who dispatches from who only knows where. You need to call the MIT PD to get the campus ... the entire world Laura Nicholson's Funtime Adventure to the Emergency

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  pleasure. Besides, he didn't need to get into MIT, not the way I did. When ... she needed more than a boyfriend to get there.  As Mitski sang, the ... Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  "]we[/annotation] go out for lunch, and we the interns get treated to ramen and ... time to explore during the weekdays, and life seems to just be get up, go ... seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  to take into consideration is what you want to get out of the UROP, and ... The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food ... [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by ... what they could to get my luggage back, and the co-workers who invite me ... not raging against the machine, exactly, staying up late to write this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it ... 're sustaining the work that led us to want to admit you in the first place). We

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... only managed to attempt about 60 of the 100 points by tuesday midnight ... about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  usually read or seen by several people, multiple times throughout the ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  managed to get a picture of the entire display, check it out. But wait ... future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... trip to Hasbro I chatted with Don Fardie, one of the model shop guys, and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form ... ’t need to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress ... have them.) Please send us the form once your grades are released, OR by

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  . We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... --- EDITED 12/11/04 09:50 AM EST --- The postman picking up all 383

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

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... to the GIRs (General Institute Requirements) to President Hockfield. As ... of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the

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

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... undergraduates to organize the annual MIT INSPIRE high school research competition

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  run-up to the S&L crisis. Here's what Lewis had to say about the ... ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the ... success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture ... professor could ask questions for the students to answer with clicker remotes

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

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012