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  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  where do students interact with their professors outside of class?? Are ... that... I'm worried =( Do teachers even know your name? Yeah.. it's kind ... help. Mike has one question: I have one question: How do people normally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  still doing fine. How did I go about this? Homework. Everything I learned that semester came from doing homework assignments. I would read the ... started taking me longer to do, and I found myself playing catchup into the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  's disease, nor do we expect that math and science are the only thing you ... dreams about reading applications. So, yeah, let me know how you are doing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... won’t do me any harm.’ ‘Ah, but I’ll differentiate you with respect to y

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... to do is build a community, and an admissions machine cannot produce a ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... need to make sure that the people they admit are able to do the work ... 's not what activities you do (or how many activities you do), but what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you ... ’ve already made. If not, pick one, do it faster than me, and don’t look back

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  building something awesome. Some people do it through UROPs. Some people do it through clubs. Some people do it through hackathons. Hackathons are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Who’s Been Doing This All Semester, yours truly! Movies! These are ... is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  quite the same number of skits, they do encompass many of the same ... have) into perspective and help you define what you want to do in an ever ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  miss their target, because they do not recognize where disappointment ... particular concern (although perhaps some of you do believe that attending MIT ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... conditioning shock me. “We do it because we want you to be happy,” my

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  be having our reception. Our first dance was to "Everything I Do" by ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... Adam's CEO finished undergrad here in 1979, then continued on to do his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  previous week and I did not do much other than study. There were lots of naps ... having fun, and they were doing it guilt-free and not under the guise of ... ’t you transfer out?” Eric asked. “Why would I do that?” We stopped on top

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... experienceexcept at night I'll go back to Berkeley and do my problem sets. So the ... DO FOR YOU? But this entry was about problem sets at one point

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math ... ? First: Mom, Dad, and sis are doing really well.  We’re living in ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... this semester, wondering about how alternate-universe-Paolo is doing with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and ... together and do a bunch of math for a week. Thousands and thousands of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019