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• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  how hard MIT is going to be? Do you think they're scared to get to ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... to be up to finish homework and go to class at 10AM seems to get me out ... from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  '07: Ropes Adventure PE class (you get to climb lots of sketchy ... 't have any D's, you can just subtract one point from an MIT GPA to get the ... to get the grades I want, and even though that takes a lot of hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without ... I skip pistol class to fly to Los Angeles (don't worry, Mike is cool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  ?) getting better grades than you? It's enough to make you feel like maybe ... 're gonna need a lot of help to get to where you ought to be." It was more ... things to do, doing well in them, getting leadership activities, volunteer

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  because I could. I would get things done, I'd just be sure to calculate how well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... -ended piece of advice, when you get down to the nitty gritty. As I've repeated

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we ... way to prepare myself for eventually getting my EMT certification.  Anna ... you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you to your home, hold onto it. Let it get you through the homesickness ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  like I miss my own bed. Also, you'll get to spend quality time with your ... 't deprive them of the pleasure of getting to hang out with you.) 4. Campaign ... everyone who made it possible for you to get to this point. (Do it now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  for the entire class. I really, really like this class. We get to build ... met was a graduate student, so I decided to get some food and leave. #7 ... accident, left immediately. My friend Deniz was trying to get me to take

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him ... . However, this entry is dedicated to Sam, who neglected to mention that HE is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  Reception Center (Room 10-100) to get a campus map, the brochure "The ... also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the ... It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a ... Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this ... to be exact. Amal, the guy who organized the convention, was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  weren't in your file, we'd contact your school directly to get them.] ... Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... too late in the process to submit additional or missing application

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  nothing to lose. That's not something you get when you get admitted RD, nor ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed ... called The Mushroom Store.” It took quite a bit of effort to get to The ... made our way over to the Porter Square T station to get back. The walk

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  fortunate coincidence) so I was able to get the individual house presidents on board. The New House 3 president asked me where we were planning to get ... get to carry anything. I felt a little bad, but mostly astonished that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013