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• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect ... not, well that's what I'm going to blame it on. At any rate, the past

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot ... "far" from campus forces me to plan ahead rather than fall into a bad ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... of their program. A company representative at a career fair came to MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... visually by some serious on-table choreography. Freestyle rapping was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... . Come on, join us and our chocolatey goodness. You know you want to. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two ... from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... . sunday night, i had enough energy to go to a holiday party our floor had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  was on the now defunct MIT ChemECar team. ChemECar is a competition to ... things that make the digits on your calculator) to a plastic. 2: Make the ... peer-reviewed journals. MIT has a program dedicated to giving you the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... back to Tampa on Thursday to attend and present at the national ... few entries to talk about stuff happenning on campus. On that note

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  always has a light on because graduate students never stop working. This ... leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... freshmen entered the room to take a turn, so we left to give them space. Who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts and Science grad student who works on Grassroots Mapping, and Oliver Yeh ... enthusiasts but applying them to a specific social and environmental goal," he

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  into the kitchen to enjoy a free dinner. Remarking on the quality of the ... prepared by a group of residents on Pecker floor and generously shared ... .01, he expressed a desire to visit Trader Joe's, a local grocery store

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... me to explain. Immediately after turning in my 6.170 pset on Sunday night (who decides to set due dates on Sunday night??), I started coughing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  simply not a part of our process anymore.   How does this apply to ... more on the things that matter to them while still preserving our ability ... for tests they wouldn't have to take for us, especially during a public

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... on fourier transforms and sound waves. I was a little tired since I have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  . Last weekend, I made a little more headway on this goal by tackling Item #51: Eat ... significance to me, because that's actually where I became a U.S. citizen :) In ... .06 (Cell Biology). Meh. Not really that sure how it went. (2) On a happier

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening ... follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was disappointed to find out that people still didn't know what a UROP was! I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006