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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was ... this e-mail finds you well and enjoying your long weekend! As your resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  uncomfortably close to getting scurvy, probably because I overestimate the ... reserving some time in your day to paint. ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... as an entrepreneur delivering an elevator pitch, you're going to need
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  involved in applicants and prefrosh that it's hard not to get excited ... 's completely impossible. Some people we just didn't get to in time (and it was ... . If you didn't get a phone call, your file was put aside into a separate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  happens when you reach the wall? Answer: You use your feet to stop. Me: Oh ... had to take a little detour to the hospital to get an x-ray to confirm ... nearby. Elderly couple, whoever you are: more power to you! When you're

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  cries. The saliva that pools in the back seems to drown you. It’s your ... to the ground and a deep red blankets your feet. There is no amount of ... . It is the slice to your heel that causes your collapse. Oh, how your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  look. The street I walked with my friends to get home every day after ... because there's so many things to remember when you're hitting the ball ... the net and the court and your opponent. Not to mention that the way you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  whether you're new to HDM or returning, I've got a fun little Internet thing ... , except for this one, you don't need to bother you mom to find your birth ... , we have managed to get this labor of love live! I hope, in this time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition. We'll win. Really.) Enjoy! Michelle gets soulful. Matt

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  out. You're required to take 4 CI classes before you graduate. This ... forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... to give you time to send along another copy. Your complete application ... has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  ! part 1: getting to class 8:50 AM: My first alarm—a primer alarm, just to ... "getting to class exactly on time" down to a science; I can afford to waste a ... , I also need to get into at least one, and some of the classes have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free ... reminders that you should all be aware of: make sure you get your financial ... helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Some people[1] say that you need to seriously rethink your life when your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... : ------------ From: Vincent To: Cam Subject: blog i just happened to look at your

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet. »Rectal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  enough time to practice enough, depending on what the rest of your schedule ... to learn to manage your time. There are also fewer examples in class ... struggle to remember what it meant for math to not be proof-based). You’re

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their ... made such comments to explain why they didn't get in. I wish it didn ... . 2. Don't let ANYONE discount your acceptance to any other reason that

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... uber pool to get there. work to the beach [caption id="attachment_45138 ... uber prices to drop before ubering home. we ended up getting home around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... what books are in your beach bag? I’d love to know. Happy Summer!

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours ... . I refuse to get another 47 on another organic chemistry exam, so I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007