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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  . Big surprise! [edit] Just saw the first comment about this all sounding ... 's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of ... Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number ... Mitra. So did Mike Short. Apparently, pretty much every one of the several ... much the whole campus. So, really, I think you could boil this whole

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... the biggest one on campus. With an ample amount of seating and multiple

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... and less prepared for the actual first day of classes. This year, I was ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  'm a little less excited about the art as a whole because every piece of ... 'm talking about the MIT 150 convocation! The subject of several recent entries ... hand: the circus! My way of saying that ceremonial robes look silly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Use your contacts The whole point of networking is to create a network ... Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... collect information on is some kind of networking. The only rule of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... ? Today was "Bring Your Audience to Work Day," definitely one of the more

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... one entry. Over the next few days, I'll be sharing all of the 30-plus ... and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  months (after the first week of May until after the first week in July), so ... was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically ... good guide to making the most of it here. I also met Ashu, one of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  ’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the most permanent aspect of how (if you’ll excuse the pun) [annotation note

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate ... , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... fun carrying two cans of paint down the cereal aisle of the supermarket

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  . *Whatever, it came before the first course. If the nominal convention of ... tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... least five (5!) distinct brands of dried squid meat. By “we” in the last

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  gives me my first small task. steven explains one of the services that our ... consistently. i did a demo of a feature i added for the first time ever ... my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The same thing will happen with Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  long time. Michael Hartl wrote the first version of The Tau Manifesto for ... /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl ... around the circle) and diameter (length across the circle). The ratio of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... , that it seems as if we are all part of the progress. When there is an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does the Office of the First Year do?

  The Office of the First Year supports a number of programs that ... . The mission of the office is to provide excellent services and programs ... the academic success and personal development of undergraduates. Staff
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  early. For the first leg of the trip, I hitch a ride with my dad to his ... ride itself, which has become my favorite part of the whole thing. In the ... This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  the benefits and challenges of applying to MIT. This is the first ... at the College of Wooster. This is the first time for me in a dorm in a ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005