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  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  are as a person, and what you were put on this earth to do. It’s a fact ... (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... Weekend, but to start your academic and life voyage as a freshman this fall

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  ; according to a local, lol). Basically, they're these dual hills on the ... hour on foot after leaving Mission Dolores, I made it to the main viewing area on the mountain, where there's a big parking lot for your car if you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  just cover it up with the confidence of facts. Fact: I am on track to ... . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be ... way that I related to quite a bit: she personified imposter syndrome as

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  more without working over time. The problem seems to be a lack of executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... not a brain in a vat put on the earth to do math at things in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  have done so, and have decided not to do a post of my own, because you ... desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... days a week to ride Champagne, a 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood that she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  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 ... early to tell. After we finish with selection, there's still a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... ago. i'm going to have to deal with it for a few months. the internet ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... was our turn to fly again, we flew the untimed cargo mission, carrying a ... into the lawn to the sound of a collective grimace from the crowd. At

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  shortly thereafter. I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to ... will be mailed via postal mail a few days later, most likely on Monday ... check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a My

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  The Orientation photo contest is off to a great start. The first photo comes to us from freshman Arya '10, an international student from ... half. What a view! (Click on the photo for a zoomed-in view)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  , they needed some condoms to play a joke on him or something. They were ... Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... after pulling an all-nighter on a Boeing 757. Way too many dangerous ... wine! eek, free wine!) and staying in a classy hotel on Sunset Boulevard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of ... about carrying my own DSLR while wearing a suit and tie.  The guy next to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  ; CONFUSED IF FOUND, PLEASE RETURN TO SKULLHOUSE A REWARD MAY BE NEGOTIATED ... who ends up with the proverbial "Kick Me" sign on his back? Well, that happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I wrote for my HASS on Tuesday. Today is an awesome day. Hopefully I can ... Guess what! I passed my EMT practical exam! Yay! Now all I have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in comparison to what comes to the mind of a French student. We consider these observations, ask for clarification and chat with the French students on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students ... had the opportunity to try to bust the Archimedes Death Ray myth. So a ... not able to recreate the flame. More on MIT and the Archimedes Death

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  Friday are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student ... goes on, as we add pieces to the collection each year. Selected students ... line outside the gallery doors for a second chance to participate in this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  have led me to a different perspective. It's not all cranky tradition on this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008