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  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  and familiar, but college is a chance to pave your own way and make your ... you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... home; come to think of it, I was one of them. Good ol’ highway 34; a

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  : Dear Undergraduates, Have you ever wanted to make a difference? Have you ... Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative ... new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... , prompting them to make enough noise so that we could find them. I've found it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make ... experience of intense struggling knocked him down a few pegs: “I had to find ... off by a final design project that brings them to life. He’s also

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience ... Counselor on-hand or schedule a 20-minute appointment to speak one-on-one with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We walked back to Burton Conner making elephant noises of triumph, feeling ... (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to ... 2008 to do something about it: this is a problem waiting to be solved

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  . (Recording these was already an interesting experience. In order to make the ... spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... with interspersed micro-problems that were designed to test a student

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  makes no sense for an MIT student to be a HASS major. Give MIT School of ... (REST). Despite my majors, I still had to take a Biology class that was ... program I’m applying to, and expressed concern about not having a technical

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... anybody cared to memorize maybe more than a 100 of e? 3. the formulas for ... )use make something better in a fight? so the real question is, are circles

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i ... 's fine to outgrow people. isn't that something you learned a long time ago ... friendships and connections. i can tell they really mean a lot to you. more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  about the humanities and half as a coping mechanism to handle the eight ... . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a ... begged her to answer some questions for me, because while we have quite a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  why I'd make a great Membership Coordinator, seeing as my brain's too ... a headache? Have some Tylenol! Stuffy nose and a cough that just won ... to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... team to learn “Wargaming,” which is like a more complex game of Risk but ... scholarship and just want to give the program a try, you can do so with no

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  academic source to make a rough timeline for both Rachel/Ross and Monica ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011