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• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... , despite never having seen these words before and abandoning my studies to ... , including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  : $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  month reading and crafting great summaries of your applications, and now ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... stack for another subcommittee to decide on. Then we take the next case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  and then propel you to reconsider your conception of morality. The ... totally needed... Hi, I'm your resident weeb. I've watched some [annotation ... "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... required. I'm probably going to take AI. Then I head to Abstract Algebra (18 ... . Afterwards, we get lunch at Starbucks and she tells me about her gap year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  get used to this new paradigm. IAP was as fun as it was tumultuous. I ... , so I'm not frazzled like I was last fall. I feel like I'll be able to devote enough time to all my responsibilities without feeling hosed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... can get." He looks at me as if he is all about the antifeminism, so ... glares at me, probably convinced I'm an ultra-promiscuous feminazi out to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no ... from September to May with a summer break, the Cambridge school year ... class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  just so happy at these events and it was amazing to get together with ... unexposed to otherwise. Favorite MIT Professor: Terry Heagney for 15.281 Managerial Communications because he was always willing to help us with things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... I interact with who have known me long enough to know what I talk like, and therefore don't feel compelled to comment). I certainly use some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... checkout books from your public library via said e-book reader. First I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... to look at it that way), going until 6am Friday. Speaker building

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... believe them."]incredible stubbornness in getting things done

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut ... platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... here so we didn't get any days off. Rather, we sat through classes ... invited as well as the students who went over to MIT last year. Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in ... my camera. I stepped out of my room the other day and had to traverse ... fairly often. We try not to walk barefoot on the splinters and shards, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I ... . And this, as you might be able to guess, was burial grounds. After I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023