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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  any questions since she's in the MEng masters program, which is only for ... except for the computer major, the MIT undergraduate students aren't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  rained for the majority of the week and everyone generally stayed indoors ... . While I rested most of the weekend, Sunday proved interesting. Join me for ... to the Z Center with nothing to show for it, I headed up Mass Ave to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was ... , and registered for the conference. The first big event was Freeman

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway ... 't get- OH MY [edited for content]." Yours truly somehow managed to receive

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my ... have? Do you have to do p-sets for Biology classes and if not, what is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  , my family sat down around the kitchen table for a discussion. My dad ... for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... some sacrifices for my education. It's totally been worth it -- not only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  one would notice for weeks; these include things like "big iff [if and ... scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... nice Snackpass ambassadorship, for sustenance. Now, living on my own with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... graduation. For decades, almost every student to graduate from Deerfield had ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before heading out together for China the next morning. While I packed pretty light

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been ... is perhaps the most egregious. I know crying is a healthy outlet for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently ... ]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... our testing requirement, but more than the 20,075 who applied for entry ... suspended our requirement for the first two years of the pandemic. Ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  revealed that he, too, is willing to betray his fiancée for a night ... that analyzed books for having a specific thesis. Back then, I composed ... sun as a metaphor for Meursault’s super-ego to criticize the societal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with laser cutters or ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one ... crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  . A UROP! That I was under-qualified for? Let's see the relevant skills: Unity: ❌ C#: 👍 Developing for VR headsets: ❌ Developing for ... I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  - the late nights, ordering Dominos, using the coupons for 2 Medium Pan Pizzas For 8.99 Each, the occassional late night conversation, sharing the ... 'm reading for my urop - some are for fun, like the first seven volumes of saga

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017