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  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  --”what?”--the second time around I think it might have been a catcall so I walk quickly ... top of the Pavilions. I have always liked talking to strangers ... enough to say hi, to hear about someone who you otherwise would never have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... it comes time to pick a grad schools. 2. The discipline I chose

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  happy as I want to be, I have this theory that I should take tangible steps to increase my daily happiness, and once all those steps have been ... angry, there is a part of me that is relieved that I have the capacity to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  let me tell you - having multiple choice exams dictate your life after 4 ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3 ... same-day shipping service. Since there was no time left for delivery to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  is picked and you have 1 minute to calibrate your robot. The robot then ... the beginning of January and they have three weeks in which to transform ... your robot can capture the skunk and then take it back to your opponent

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  in mid-March to give students more time before the May 1 reply deadline ... (probably? why not definitely? what would have to happen to not get admitted ... in your mailbox. And for those of you applying to MIT, I wish you the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  .” And then he’s like “Yeah, you’re in here all the time. Well, we ... adjusting to do; it’s going to take a long time to re-imagine 19 years of ... ’t have a map to. Even on my worst days I don’t regret that choice, but

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  were several times I didn’t say “no” when asked to help out with random ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... what I thought, at the time, would be useful or helpful to pursuing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us ... 'd answer. I know you're VERY excited, and probably want to start working on ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  , then you're correct. So this past weekend, my fraternity hosted a party ... have been my choice in shirt and tie combination. Basically, each ... invite our friends over to our house to enjoy some dessert, smooth jazz

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  yourself or your family to sit for these exams. If you have to have to ask ... afterward.  After careful consideration, we have decided to reinstate our SAT ... having SATs/ACT scores to consider tends to [annotation note='Although our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  . Since I’ve got a bit of time, a few random notes which have come to mind ... train: #5, currently on time listening to: 鱼丁糸, “I Don’t Care (鱼版)” Good ... ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  'd have more time to talk. And then I graduated, and I went back to a house ... things that come into your life at just the right time and tell you exactly ... year, I've moved six times. It's familiar to me now, boxing up all my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  ’t appreciate how much effort we had been putting in until we didn’t have to ... understood eigenvalues, or the time we made it to the third round of NCAAs with the best team ever, or the time we got to eat free burritos during

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  at MIT. For those of you who have already decided where you're going to ... , REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms and pick the place whose ... time to enjoy yourself and to meet as many people as possible, freshmen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass ... learned how to take the glass back off the end of the pipe when you're done

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  first time. Last night I woke up at 5:30 to put the finishing touches on ... contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do ... --the professor doesn't even have to know, so he or she will just give you a B or a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  point is, it's funny how if you have major changes in your life, like ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... that I wouldn't have wanted to switch high schools, since leaving it at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  to the committee: "I have spent so much of my time at MIT writing, I ... , oh, you're graduating this semester. You need to write an essay." Turns ... to write about photopolymers. Experimentally. More on that another time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... away to frats or sororities, where they would have the ability to ~vibe ... for one to preserve communities like this in extended periods of time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020