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  On schools & context

  

  during the committee process to other individuals from your school or area ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... schools happen to have the personality that clicks with MIT? I'm speaking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention ... your command. *goes to cross bridge* Um, crap, no sidewalk or bike lane ... me to skate on. I tried going left, skating for a while to see if there

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you're considering MIT (if not, you might be on the wrong website), here's my advice ... started to understand MIT as an institute built on cooperative, immersive

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  ’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for ... to the official rules page of the program website, “Any physical

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  find ideas for new ones, though. It's hard to find pictures of hair that ... like I'm writing. It feels like words are appearing on the page. When it stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... to understand rain and its effects on drinking water. I later realized ... water get to my bathroom faucet in New House? I have no idea where it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  decided that it was time to conquer her fear of bikes, mountains, and New ... tour bus when you're trying to maintain a safe following distance of ... person coming at you on a bike, steer clear. Not just for your own sake

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  Bollywood-radio channel on my way to class. Even though I was born and raised ... such a way that we were closely tied to our heritage. Now that I live on ... air as we take a ride on a jeep children make their way to a guava tree

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... to get me -- I’d finally found my fellow lizard people! Socializing on ... attempt at pretending to be smart. Getting on campus didn’t fix my tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  having to carry my passport and risk losing it. I was going to live in New ... the exam room, expecting to breeze through the test. However, I quickly ... are many of them missing road markings (so it's hard to tell where you're

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  Brothers Marketplace in the evening to stock up on milk and eggs. [caption ... When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on ... be on hand to share their insights and answer your questions. Sponsored ... the iceberg...to get a head start on your plans check out the schedule

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 ... attach slippery objects to my feet and get on a frozen chair dangling from ... taking...) -- according to the website, "The swim test requires that you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  reading your comments on Stu's post and was going to write back but then ... I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but ... time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  prefrosh in an "OMG, you're from New York too?!" powwow. Once back on campus ... every 7 minutes or - more closely resembling reality - for 8 to begin on ... West Saferide for the trip back to MIT. On the mostly-empty bus, we were

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling ... lies on a plane of your choosing. And then you can turn that into a solid ... "]extrude[/annotation]or [annotation note="remember your calculus y'all (just kidding you do not need to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... --which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can ... that based on my perception of it as a sophomore)  :D From the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern ... course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... , catching up on the sleep that seems to hide during the term. :-) I've been

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  . Everyone is going to have an opinion on your choice of topic, or your tone ... for a quick bite) and reassembled it here, only to discover that one of ... meaning, so you are NOT ALONE in your endeavors to write great things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014