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  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  undergraduate, even though that had always been my major. I had hoped to get here ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and ... miles to get clean water for her family. Instead, she could spend that ... blind spots, we need to confront the problems and get to know them before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  to get back to reading, and hope you all have a great last month of ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so ... I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to get a UROP and do research as an undergraduate. Margaret Mac ... MIT grad school now, don't expect to get out with a PhD in less than 5 ... 's not much trouble at all to get up the river, and you're allowed to take

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other kitchen appliances. It originally belonged to my aunt, but she sent it to my family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  last entry: when I said I try to get off campus as much as possible, I ... 's common for freshmen to get single rooms, though not terribly large ones.) ... First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  ! Although I get to do it for fun, and you get to do it while biting your nails ... hope this might help you get back into the mood to write a little more ... like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  , like, get dressed. Comments 1. I am willing to bet that Bryan and ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9:30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been ... sessions that I'll be going to over the next month, and then I get to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical ... -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side dorms (assuming Hurricane Irene doesn't get us first).  Freshmen will

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom ... outcome to the decision you receive from MIT, and the odds are heavily

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed over to the EC workshop (that's Educational Counselor, not East Campus

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... the excitement lied in the fact that I was not expecting to get into MIT ... trying to get an idea of who I was interviewing and whether MIT would be

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... 've gone to New York, I've been all "Oh WOW I want to get student rush

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006