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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  roommate or a room on another floor; of course, you might also decide to move ... and is already planning to accidentally-on-purpose show up at scheduled ... available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  'm working on a project that somehow has managed to capture everything that I ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our ... that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants.
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  .  I went to Veggie Galaxy, a vegetarian restaurant on Mass Ave, for the ... remember this moment being a wake-up call to check-up on people regularly and ... ."]shows[/annotation] that were on my list. I’ve been ~trying~ to keep a regular workout and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  seemed like a solid second bet. Besides, I’m out here to gather new skills and experiences to weave into stories later on. Blacksmithing, as a ... , to make a hook. Repeat that on the other side, so you have two hooks

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  new group. To make a long story short (one for a whole other blog post ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... new sorority coming to MIT. There was an increased demand for greek life

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  working on a new project, I'll "think inside the box" so to speak, and ... sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me, sitting on my bed typing a blogpost. I've started waking up way too early ... from). Waking up this early was a change. One I didn't intend on, but a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of ... 't. One that struck me a lot wasn't even something new, but something that ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  than a summer break to pause, to think, to reflect on what they were ... 90 minutes to start an IV on a dehydrated old woman. I saw John, a ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  sclerosis, aka Lou Gherig's disease. The challenge is to dump ice water on ... the video onto social media with a list of new nominees and a link back ... , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... many people are taking on additional responsibilities at home to protect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the question is: Ok, I guess... As a quick reminder my current schedule is: Real Analysis (18.100A) Physics II (8.02) Fundamentals of Programming

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always building something scary that does something awesome and it's fun to see his

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for ... character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to ... comic's readers to choose among MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... Institute for Basic Research, which is run out of a PO Box in Florida. The new ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  day (on a free ticket though – redeemed through my miles). I had to go ... boarding pass for the IAD to SFO leg (I had a layover at Washington Dulles on ... traveling with friends who didn’t want to eat. On a very rare occasion, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into ... thought to be two safe backup options: unpaid laborer on an organic farm in ... full $900/month rent), I finally received two dream job offers on a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  know that becuase u will have a vast eastern culture to discover, and the eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... , but during Campus Preview Weekend, I do get to put a lot of faces with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005