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  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The ... lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing, or deciding how to pick your ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  . We even met on a nerdy class trip.) But feel free to shoot me an email ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki ... problems on the test. I had to step it up and give it my all in order to pass ... classes ended on Thursday, it was time to get serious about studying for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  doesn’t seem to happen often, and the freedom of being able to leave your ... the draw of being able to chill out on the commute, rather than being ... exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  walking is going to prolong your ankle sprain? Try arms! Give your legs a break and become friends with the next best pair of limbs on your body ... I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  your SAT scores. I won’t touch on it again. You shouldn’t need to touch ... like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You’re ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  your plans to stay on the waitlist rather than return the postcard ... thread to write new formulas and solve the puzzle from a variety of ... of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  mine is majoring in architecture in and is planning on going to med ... admissions, and statistics on 2004 pre-meds. This website is really helpful ... week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  arbitrary white flags to indicate your surrender to the will of Sod. [caption ... pallets on some of the major walkways through Kresge lawn to inconvenience ... ;   Step 5: Hire some actors to do sports on the grass. This will

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  on the Admissions site. It's true that we encourage our bloggers to ... credibility. But allowing the blogs to become a full-on soapbox is a slippery ... senate. Since students have so much say as to what goes on, it's important

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... ="It's kind of scary how quickly your belongings multiply after living here for ... ,  in which everyone on this floor likes board games to some extent, and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  greatness. We reported to the sailing pavilion at 5:30 am on Saturday ... airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop ... planes on it. (^^Photocredz to Julia C. '20!!) Basically, our schedule

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  housing to setting up your shiny new MIT email account.) 21: Speaking of ... room with my parents standing on either side of me, ready to either ... something like, "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  coolest people on campus, moved up to the top two or three when she showed ... . I really didn't expect to find this on page 1040. So here, right ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  semester. So based on suggestions from some of you, I'm going to host an ... or however long it takes to do as many repetitions of "A Whole New ... About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  the rest of your time to work on the project. Unfortunately, because my ... biological engineering. To "prove your worth" to the department and earn a degree, you're asked to use your expertise to tackle a realistic, complex

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of ... on a Wednesday for NO REASON—it was so good lol walking to 7/11 late ... . that part wasn't fun making bad decisions—like going on Omegle to tutor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  involvement in organizing science bowl competitions, helping to recruit new ... of a virtual world. But with this new format, gone were the “head-to ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020