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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... barely scratches the surface. By trying to give prefrosh the option of ... and make sure to get outside during the nice days. There are some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just ... time. I would get back to the dorm at midnight and collapse on someone

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  've discovered that the best way to survive is by recognizing the small victories ... session, randomly stopping by our room to serenade my roommate and I, or ... Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  searching, it’s time to change course, to take the necessary steps to get you ... feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  hand, is getting slapped around by the fire gods as if it was nothing ... myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  harnesses and had to wear helmets. I didn't manage to get a good picture of a rider in motion, but I did get a picture of this rider who was about to ... wood. This year, some of our wooden structures were connected by bridges

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that ... upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  to be in Boston that weekend, and want to stop by, we'd love to host ... your entrée preferences, and I'll get back to you with directions and ... me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  get to some of the area’s most fun and picturesque spots, including the ... free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you’ve always wanted to learn, hang out with friends, or do research in the lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games ... one football game. I never went to any sort of sporting event at my high school. But when you move to Boston, it's really hard not to be a Red Sox

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  opted to paint. Over lunch, we were approached by a nice old man who asked ... a 9 pm flight at 7 pm, it was too late. I need to get my eyes checked ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  data to the statistics file, where I analyze it by type of day (schoolday ... was little, I used to always get a 96-box of Crayola crayons for the ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  expectation, waiting to see and be seen by somene. This expectation weighs on ... , de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise. How is it that I get to live every ... this world? That I get to think about the unbelievable beauty day after

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have ... feeling it will start to get more detailed as the week gets closer. Some ... to get local restaurants to either donate food or give us discounts

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the ... reached out to many people at MIT to get advice--from Professor Hazel Sive

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that happens here is that oftentimes there isn't enough time to get it all down ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  unorthodox methods. They are often motivated by revenge, seeking to settle real ... the lab to ask us questions and get to know us. 2.004- Dynamics and ... go by so quickly! Everyone who completes the class qualifies to go on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  , and we had to get back to work, so we went back inside and psetted until ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... ’ve been getting occasional “it MiGhT snow… mAyBe” messages from the cryptic

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  ways at MIT where you can get help if you want to. Office hours (an hour ... problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours ... makes people less willing to help each other get better marks. At MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  try to have completed your interview by December 10th if possible. You ... who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008