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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  ’M ON NETFLIX It’s finals week. On Monday I have two exams back-to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result ... and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  needed to get back in shape. With the desire to end my career on a better ... qualifying season. The rules had changed over the summer, adapting to a new ... 't have the months of the off-season training to rely on, but the new rule

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with ... happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  new friend named Rebecca. We sat in on a geology class which had videos ... where I fit in. It was a great feeling to eat breakfast before leaving on ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... has a bunch of people that will buy a new system on launch day and thus

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... from across campus joined together to work on the worst possible ideas they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  down on a whiteboard trying to remember any cities I could and Alan Z ... iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for ... my new phone everything was very small and hard to tap. I was way past

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  memories spanning more than a year it's simply easier to introduce myself as ... this website; every piece infused with a candor and respect for our ... fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were ... why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... be living on a different continent or pursuing a completely different

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We ... order them on Amazon. I decided that it was either time to invest in a ... they'll let us, do a "Marching Band on Ice" show (no skates). Well, if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  where several rooms are lined wall to wall with moderately new books at ... love books and will be at MIT, this is a quick public service ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  that we need to make a decision on your case. The Application Tracking ... Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... -so-secret crush on Pine, the mail client that's used on Athena. I used to only use

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake ... things I'd actually managed to do. I sort of wonder if there'll ever be a ... four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  , we're going to try something new, something that's never been done on ... likely to be a lower grade if I continue on with both classes. Also! CPW is ... entry every time there's a quick update (every several days or so) and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... , while integrating new technologies on a broad scale into an immense and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  'm so and so and I read and comment on your blog all the time," I want to ... a favor, and introduce yourself to me. I'm very friendly, promise. To ... their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  to find a post-doc (two-ish year full-time research positions) which ... fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  kind of a throwback to AP Physics C: Mechanics, with a little new ... going to be a lot of new material. Everyone of my subjects, other than ... seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018