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  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  came, it was gone, and I was left to plod my way through a weird liminal ... resolution to stay on top of everything. I remember being a freshman this time ... as close to the ground as possible, or that I’m a mid-day showerer (not

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... "] Wow, he's a peer mentor too? He's certainly making me feel at home in ... I hope you have a great fall semester! Mine is already off to a great

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... show off their unique cultures, get to know you, and help you get a ... has a group, and many will be there to talk to you about what they do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  the other half thinks. It turned out to be a really interesting ... . After that I went to a session on Interviewing Techniques, which is useful ... his pictures are better. In the end, I learned enough to receive a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  , I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff ... assets MIT has is the people. Coming to MIT I was a pretty shy and reticent

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... 'm too afraid to jinx myself by making some general statement about MIT. On

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... game. It's not a good way to spend your time. Go have some fun. Enjoy the ... For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible ... application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... school year's tuition looming over my head, so I had to make financially ... mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We deferred 6 ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but honestly, it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We deferred 6 ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but honestly, it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  yet, a child who is spoken to twice as much as another child will make ... 't ready to speak a certain way, you can't make them learn it. All you can do ... Last semester was pretty rough, and I vowed to make this semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  papers with other students is fun! Figuring out how to make a proof ... have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer ... opportunity to help a nonprofit with a technical project, as well as a software

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  that you should come to if you happen to be a current mit student ... ohms. arranging here refers to the process of taking a song and turning ... highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... was going to be a better approach, given these limitations. phylogenetic ... classification all the way down to the species, or I had to use a more general

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends ... tapped out for this CPW, leaving it to a '25 and '26 who felt similarly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... snazzy, something that I would still enjoy. I didn't want to spend a ton of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009