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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... audience, especially when you're trying to explain complicated research to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... otherwise, even the little voice in your head that's telling you to just strap ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  '07: Ropes Adventure PE class (you get to climb lots of sketchy ... 't have any D's, you can just subtract one point from an MIT GPA to get the ... to get the grades I want, and even though that takes a lot of hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  credits will be appended onto your transcript. Moreover, you need to meet ... Intensive). A side note: you're actually required to take a CI class during your first year at MIT, or you'll be considered to be in "non

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  because it's hard to get your brain together when you're in panic mode. So ... home to get food so I'd remember to eat. I then went home and put on real ... 3.081 (Industrial Ecology of Materials) - try to get done as soon as

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... introduce myself to them, and they say, "Oh, you're not an undergrad, right ... writing and being nice to people that I don't know). I don't even get carded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  like tickets to events or food from class fundraisers, or do your laundry ... stays as money in your account. While not entirely necessary to survive ... me. I don't register my money situation until I get to the cash

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  comments that entry received: "So, what can our students do to get your fair ... time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  you want to be when you grow up. Eventually, you'll get there. And it ... up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We used the phrase when we were little, starting at around kindegarden, to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of ... able to find in my desk drawer. If stickers aren’t your thing, there were ... ID that stick to your phone. But let’s be honest—stickers are everyone

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  to me. Finally just before I left, his mom gave me a hug: “You’re ... 's not just an abstract stream of verse that I feel pressured to “get ... say you’re enjoying your date. To be under your silk touch light eyes

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... part of the neck out in order to “deflate” your puffy marshmallow self

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on ... Carter '07, we were able to get into the theatre with enough time to find ... to "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris, (hey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite ... , are going to be just fine. And even if you do trip and dislocate your ... to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... me: 1. Listen. Ask people to lunch or to coffee and just get to know ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  advice - to get a pair of fresh eyes to look at your work, when you've hit ... want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I ... to both papers of yours that I've seen so far." What? Again with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  everything to get you laughing at me I'm still a believer but I don't know why ... which is so heartbreaking. All this time I never learned to read your ... still miss me in your bones And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  somewhere dry or else it gets a really weird color to it, etc. 8. Trash bags ... trash is overflowing and you can't get a good grasp on it and all your ... get too tired to cook or order out eventually. It's surprisingly good

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  ." That's SO WEIRD. You don't get to say things like that unless you're an ... get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009