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  Images of Rush preparation

  

  ...I think that's going to be a homemade moat/river. And here we get a more ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  When I grow up, I want to be Suzan-Lori Parks. Only, you know, not ... to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... in Miami when she released her first novel, Getting Mother's Body. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  to, very objectively, determine whether or not you’re overcommitted. It ... secure in getting my stuff done now that I know I have enough time to do it ... fiction about the way that reality is going.” blast in your ears.  I go to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... addition to your week of breaking stuff in lab and eating marshmallows for ... just took me two minutes to type those sentences. WHY WHY WHY did it have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  out of the experience, and I try to tell them, but often I get stuck ... Modernist poetry; writing vocal arrangements and plays for your friends to ... .']fun ways to just waste time with your band as you sit on stage

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• 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 / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  face stuck on my screen. 10) But time to post this entry and get back to ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now that I've returned from a long time away, I'm getting ready to head out ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  us to learn and get feedback from each other. Smaller departments ... ’t even matter that much. You’re free to pursue internships or research ... your opportunities or access to resources. In conclusion, here is a list

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long ... I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  to indicate your level of understanding. For example, I'd say I have a ... to make many many more come CPW next week! Up your excitement a few ... them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... concept. for the final project, we get to play around with (or come up with ... 't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in civil and environmental engineering because I wanted to eventually work on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to ... Weekend, but you're wrong. CPW really means "4 days of Pure a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  things you do at MIT. To be honest, I really enjoy them! I get weird looks ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big ... that it's impossible to study without getting distracted. When you've got

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010