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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  time to sleep lately, let alone blog, but I just thought I'd give a quick ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my ... 'm spending spring break visiting Adelaide in France, with a 2 day excursion to ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  , make coffee, try to get into a productive mindset. Think about blogging ... relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  . All of this snowballed into a NR on my grade report. To make matters ... that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has ... ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We'll see how that turns out. The application part ought to make it easier to ... Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  top N items, so for those you should make a judgment call about which ... stereotype was one of the things that turned me off to CMU. It wasn't until a ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  1958, a couple members of the MIT fraternity Lambda Alpha Chi were making ... night after a chapter meeting, they decided they were going to mark the ... Lambda Alpha Chi, the pledges, to repaint it. What started as a funny

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a ... more hours to the day, though…     You are reading a blog post about a ... , what?:   Or else!     I was delighted recently to see a pile of

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  down a pinterest-boarding, wishlist-making, room-blue-printing spiral. By ... the chance, we borrowed a car and headed out to Cambridge Antiques and ... love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to ... . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  ’m so excited to make people happy!   UROP I GOT A UROP AND IT ... , and I hope you enjoy reading about them :) Thus, I decided to write a ... have such great concentration skills. We used to be a varsity sport at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  'll make pre-college fellow admit friends who you'll all use as a support ... friends and your support structures and you'll be well on your way to making ... forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  retailer through their app, that retailer will donate money to a charity of ... during a Mass Innovation Night to see if I recognized or had already met ... most people don't want to think about, but it helps give a peace of mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite ... , which to date has included topics on global warming and a unit on public ... global warming. Because 11.002 is a CI-H class, we are required to rewrite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms see Gloria's post

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-a-guide-to-dorm-gyms/

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... out the door. I wanted to witness the magnificence of a Cambridge twilight, a previously unfamiliar event to me. And, let me tell you, such did

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  on Microsoft Word to proofread your essay -- you'll want to take a keen ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... if you do have a spelling error? It's certainly not fatal, but it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning ... Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In ... exchange. I had less than a week to decide. Indeed, I was incredibly excited

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017