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• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  The Common Application Q and AStudent Performance on the New SATRecommendations ... Gillis looking on. At left, Shalala's adoring audience. Lloyd Thacker ... discussion on ethical admissions, which included admissions deans from UNC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  catching up on email and various projects I'm behind on since returning from ... do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to ... took a boat ride on some rural canals and visited the Floating Market

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  so normally I'd just say "hi" and continue on my merry way, but the moment she saw me, Erica '07 (on the right) exclaimed, "Sam! You should ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Today - or I guess, now yesterday - was a special day on 5th East. Well, many days are special on 5th East, but today was Clayton '08's 19th ... 's Club" on hall, which included guests dressing up. The only problem was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were other people on 5th East doing the same thing, so we sat under the red ... on 5th East. We were soon joined by Lex '00. One of my favorite things

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  balloon rides were offered across the city on Saturday afternoon. And boy, it was hot on Saturday...about 98 degrees. Fortunately, they were ... the MIT campus (makes for a nice walk on most nights). (I think I may

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts ... got around a 96% on an exam at some point in my freshman year, and that was when I peaked during my MIT career. A grade that high on an exam was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would ... ="Boston drivers"]the most dangerous thing on planet Earth.[/annotation] A car has ... to class on time. You are a bit chaotic, but you embrace it, and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... so enjoyable. There are two sessions a week, one on Tuesday and one on ... . On Tuesday, students present on a randomly selected song from the album

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  physics class every Tuesday and an algebra class every Wednesday. i. on ... around, or openly be on their phones during class, or talk to their friends ... . on teaching Both the physics teacher and the algebra teacher I observe

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We ... what happens, the show must go on. You have to maintain composure and ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  the strangely colored hunk of brick on the side of Vassar Street. But rather than drone on and on about how much I dislike this pseudo-prison, I ... -shaped, unsuspecting brick building on the side of Mass Ave next to a shady gas station

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... [/annotation] that has been around since before people even used the Internet on a ... possible. 6.837 (Computer Graphics): I'm hesitant to even put this class on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  murals may be restored. Also, sliding wall panels for students to paint on ... be restored, but this renovation is still impactful on each of the dorm ... settled on Spaceman Spiff planting the B1 flag. Rob visited a few years ago

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  talk about is ~my feelings~. (Wow! Writing about your feelings on the ... really crucial, and otherwise I just sort of skated by on ignorance. And ... continued on living as I had been living, until the very end of my very last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  ) and it still doesn't feel like I quite have the grip on how to navigate ... hours on something that you could have easily completed in two ... . Because writing let's you put a stop on the clock to reflect what is and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... weeknight, and by 11 or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. This is painfully ... [annotation note="hurray for multitasking"] while I meal prep on Mondays

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  noodle I shift my weight to dodge the blow... but then I’m on the ground. I ... dorms on campus. If someone likes a different dorm from the one they're in ... plans go up in smoke. Because they will. Sorry :/. 1. Rely on people The

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is ... -------------------------------I did not anticipate how much time I would be spending on career ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with excitement and optimism. We're recharged to take on the semester again, excited ... weekend, and [annotation note="Or 3 if you skip your classes on Wednesday

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018