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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  it on, considering that my room heater is consuming as much energy ... , my childhood had taught me that the correct response to free candy is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get ... & see if you can figure out where each one is

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  overcast day began with a light drizzle. Though simple rain is never enough ... restaurant in Boston/Cambridge is likely just overflowing with graduates and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  tie my shoes in the morning. There is no EXCUSE!" I have no excuse. It ... hypernatremia. So okay, this entry is pretty overdue, and it's maybe not one of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... picture really shows just how huge this hack really is. So far, I had

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  [by Gilad Evrony '07] I think it was around junior year that it occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to ... more about my experience and international opportunities at MIT. This is

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great ... share the wisdom I gain from college with you, so here it is: don't be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  reaction to it, illustrates something about MIT that I think is very ... anything before it. None of this is the case at MIT. The students at MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  free from anxiety. This semester is pretty unique for me. I am studying ... of Biomolecular Systems is listed as both a Biological Engineering (BE

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  office, which is always good.) Not to mention a few overnight train trips ... toward the minor in Applied International Studies. My first class is 10am

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  cheerleader, I a member of a group that is shockingly underrepresented in ... , I think, is what you really want in an undergrad school -- a place

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  Mid-summer frivolity, part one... Instructions: bold everything that is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet ... . 51. Christmas is my favorite holiday. 52. I can be very insecure

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  why ingesting carbs makes you tired. This is a very hand ... blood glucose after a carb meal -- high blood sugar is supposed to make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  I often hear students say that colleges control their destinies and that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not ... research on the selectivity of the colleges (and this is what I mean about

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  Infinite is ... quite long. Tim's still going! Ah, the Ellen Swallow ... is ecstatic! Apparently the statue was cold and it felt interesting on

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

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What is the best extracurricular I should be doing right now? How do you ... last day of school is still fresh in my memory as I’m writing this. I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  high. Charm, like me, is from Arizona, and one or the other of us kept ... little else, and perhaps this is why I jogged about a mile before realizing ... . Plus food after walking a lot is god's greatest gift to man. There was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  version complete additional assignments. Limited to 20. CMS.621 is broken ... impact of One Direction itself. High school is an awkward time. I was a ... class. Someone did a presentation on how cringe culture is dead, or how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  everything is thrown at you at once, even if you're intentionally about finding ... —that is, fast Fourier transforms in 6.046, adaptive learning in 6.810, amino ... and all is a full-time commitment. School has no bounds; work becomes

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018