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  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  basic gist, as I'm sure you know, is that Americans work their tails off ... something I noticed a couple months ago – this: What's that, you ask? The top is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  when I wasn't totally jazzed about MIT. I got accepted, and that was pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any ... 's likeness to recycled cardboard; a girl I know at Berkeley calls me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with ... plenty of dreams in attendance. Check your “most visited” website stats: Google ... from Facebook. A Dropbox t-shirt. Bright Google sunglasses. You are now a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It ... writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  [by Nathan Kipniss '14] This semester I am currently taking STS ... assignment. I was trying to capture the sunset on film. We also explore ... éma vérité and direct cinema (which, I should emphasize are

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some ... myself to it. In January 2020, I built a web app with my two friends; we ... I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  a million different corners of the world. Personally, I think we ... filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific ... hot topic among applying students. I think back and I realize that I've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of people who indicated their availability. I then remember that I forget to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  I'm allowed to write about what I saw at Google, aside from what they ... years. I'm glad I have the Educational Counselors (alumni volunteers, also known as ECs) to help me out at these meetings. After San Jose, I headed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ...   Amber  Ali Audrey Kano '25 I felt profoundly small. The world was changing right before my eyes and there was nothing I could do about it. At

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... in Salt Lake City. I decided I'd take in the sights before my meetings, so I headed out to Park City to see the Olympic site, and up to Temple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  should apply to MIT. I came across an article on Google news about a ... Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  with faculty outside of the classroom/lab, our council pays up to $25 per ... friends and I spent the next few hours (well, days, sort of) trying to ... year, I ate with two friends and an economist, so I think I should branch

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  rockstar. Hawk Cam Have you guys seen the hawk-cam yet? Funny story - I ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... . :-) Reason #261 That I Would Live In EC If They'd Let Me Because they build

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  . We had lectures for the first two weeks of Momentum and Web Lab. I also ... campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat lined up with mine, i have countless more who spent the month on their own

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  I could and observing web traffic data as soon as my articles are ... famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I ... I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  talented web developer and photographer studying Computer Science here at MIT ... , and I'm currently a freshman studying Computer Science and Philosophy. When I'm not doing homework, I'm writing programs and taking pictures of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  talks about the tremendous contributions of MIT students: Last week, I also met with two groups of M.I.T. students who blew me away. One was the M.I.T. Energy Club, which was founded in 2004 by a few grad students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007