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  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  be your partner in a group project. You probably like to hike or do ... admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  record a class and do it over. After a frightening semester of flying ... what could've given me enough of a buffer to bring my grade up. Doing all ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other ... a couple of good friends from high school -- Ethan, Harsheta, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  up for the class- but do it early, because there's a pretty long wait ... a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... ? Rachel asked: Woahh! Do you get access if you're not a course 2 major? Are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  continue doing so until I'm nothing but a head and some hands. I am tired, a ... ? Guilt hangs a heavy weight on my ankles as I do things for myself. Every ... needed to be. I've always very much been a more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... able to do it all? When should I stop studying to take a break? What time ... I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  were constantly doing things to be sensational. It was a lot of fun, but ... do with MIT; they're just to set a mood. Listen if you'd like. playlist ... looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  enjoyable." -- Deepta I don't know if I'll do this justice, but I'll give it a ... for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  building full of friendly people your age). I also had a chance to do lots of ... antagonists and a glam-rock starchild have died, and the friend i do not like ... I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  information or any hints about what the volunteer would do. We just asked for a ... opposed to what they were actually doing. We identified a few ... the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  reviews! “Seeing kids do it was very fun. In a world in which mit promises ... MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there ... sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  Simmons can do that well of a job of bringing people together. So thank you ... The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. '17 Just before 9 pm ... puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I will not, however, be leaving MIT. I will instead be moving a few buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  the extra work i was doing was worthwhile? i invented a lot of answers ... a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  you're doing. It's a little weird, because sometimes it feels like it ... 've gotten to do through MIT. For example last semester, I took 2.008 (a Design ... 't revolve around work. People work hard, but also spend a lot more time doing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , like how to do laundry, or how to not burn a pot of spaghetti are ... with you and makes you want to do a silly dance. I’m blowing this whole ... out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  a lot of practice to do. Deep Fear #1: Blanking Out You know the ... , do the research. Make a page of notes. Print said pages of notes. Then ... My earliest memory of making a presentation consists of saying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007