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• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... you to get yourself a Kerberos Identity/Athena username. What will this ... , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... . Every pset takes me ages to complete, anywhere from 8-12 hours a week

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six ... whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm. In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... describing a current project on the bubonic plague, Prof. McCormick referred to ... down to 14E-304: a cozy little seminar room with a central table and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of ... /directors of the movie, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, were there to do a Q&A ... to watch the movie! As for the movie itself, I sobbed like a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear ... , 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

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who ... older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As ... weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 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 ... opposite way." A woman on the other side of the display chimes in with ... and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight

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

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  , you definitely don’t want to know. A few times, I sit on the floor and ... drawing a sad smiley on the final page of a difficult midterm and hoping you ... a while, but yes, it feels like temporary freedom, to just take a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  a cup of tea on his way to fight an invisible space bear the printer ... rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... right— Phillip ’15, hiding behind the Cheez-Its. Phillip is a freshman on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  tricks to getting yourself around the world on MIT's dime. Start: 0 mi ... wanted to try living abroad, this is a good taste test because you can live and work anywhere between 3 months to a year. Most MISTI programs also

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a ... home to many a transgenic fruit fly and is slightly remniscent of Amy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then become a doctor. I was going to rock out at my classes and a bazillion

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  realization or stunning insight that i've come to a conclusion on. instead, all ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your ... how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll ... of mean to him and call him a dumb, weird dog, he likes to follow me

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015