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• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new room with a new roommate who I didn't know all that well, to a new floor surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  to get somebody to guess "stick pickles into your nose and ears?" The ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... person has 60 seconds to get their team to guess as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  making and trying new things. Instead of being scared to ask for help, I ... DesignPlus also gets you tap access to the MAD fabrication shop overall (on ... cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  to smooth surfaces by taking advantage of intermolecular forces, which ... wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , you had to get in line early for ring sales to get a subsidy. Therefore, Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... best way to get this message across." I'll update if there is more news

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... to bind adiponectin." By identifying and isolating those special cells ... specific lab, it's in your best interest to speak to the professor directly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  with administrators to get the harsh new policy replaced with this policy ... . So is anyone ever going to update the online IHTFP hack gallery? I get ... to me. If you think you're such a l337 h4Xx0r who could do so much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot ... open to new opportunities and new friendships and I try to take chances ... ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , adapted to, put neatly in its new spot in the revised status quo. Bad change ... to the idea of carpe diem, seize the day, chase your dreams, and other ... you’ve always wanted to try, to experiment with your likes, dislikes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  thing that defines your high school career. Get out and try new things ... should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  , you might need to learn new content on your own. No matter what, you ... classes do not contribute to your GPA. Freshman spring you will start ... your first semester to be easily fixable with these versions. These

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... assignment. Instead, it was meant to show us how linguists document new ... .010) This assignment was by far the most fun. I had to make a poster about the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  .05: Introduction to Probability and Statistics 21W.035: Science Writing and New ... bargaining didn't get me very far, and it became pretty clear I'd have to make ... have more time for myself and new hobbies All of this circled back to an

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  reply to those people is, do your parents, or the other adults you know ... , one of our new freshmen was moving into her room, which happened to be a ... to freshmen by people who were little kids, if that, when the events

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  , it'll get you where you need to go, but sometimes it breaks. If it ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  , and originality. Open to everyone, do it by yourself, do it with others ... By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let's have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009