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  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  "You should really cherish your time at MIT." And I thought to myself ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... , even going so far as to say that I feel othered by them. They've find my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Yesterday, I got up early, despite having gone to bed late the night before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... side to side, because I get splitting head-and-shoulderaches afterward

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  "...woops, wrong HAL. Anyway, let's get back to the Fourth. Two years ago, my ... pie, which - needless to say - was soon devoured by my ravenous brothers ... Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  the privilege to interact with the new cool kids on the block. Can ... legitimate answer to the “what’s your hobby?” question (it used to be UROPs ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... your choice to form your HASS concentration Unlike the science core, you ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  getting in to MIT. I feel your pain. My senior year involved a lot of things ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... riders are there to learn and observe and basically be bossed around by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous cannon, the Fleming Cannon (belonging to Fleming House, naturally). They

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of ... enough to cripple the living. I took a gamble by thinking death metal could ... article: Kill Zombies With Your Rock Band Drums The wait to use your Rock

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  to me like being parented by upperclassmen. The freshmen here don’t get ... ends there as a new era starts. But what happens when you start to get ... felt repetitive. I keep track of what I’m supposed to do by memorizing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your ... : never delete your Public. NEVER DELETE YOUR PUBLIC. If you are trying to ... will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  getting married to that person, having kids with that person, getting old ... picture getting married to him. So we revelled in the teenage dream that is ... couldn’t. So here I am, in a new city, surrounded by people I don’t know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth ... certainly get the gist of it. By the end of the first day, I was already ... defined by a set of arbitrary checklists or shiny, new facilities. It’s that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science ... very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... Society.” And here’s what really intrigued me (referring to a speech by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames ... costume, then searched my room for a fridge, with grand plans to get Thai

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Bombers or the Cultural Houses in New House). The walls are more likely to ... includes a "virgin sacrifice" conducted by hallmembers. Not exactly your ... , though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  succession, her Facebook status was updated, Google-stalking was initiated, and ... yesterday, Jeanne's phone rang and we went to meet our overnight guest (who was suitably impressed by our vanilla-scented plug-in air freshener

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  , good luck and best wishes to your final choice. Like what Paul said ... teaching SAT (probably it was an opportunity to finally "get back" at ETS for ... meet with to register for your classes. As the name implies, the freshmen

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... multiplies the list of ingredients by whatever fraction necessary to feed the ... "Introduction to Pulsars". Basically: classes inspired by my summer research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  , see, and do! So, if you're coming to CPW this weekend, this is my ... Beaver Spell out "MIT" with your new CPW-friends in front of your ... * looking forward to what you're going to come up with through the magic of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011