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  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was ... <3'] is Semantle.[/annotation] I was introduced to it by Jenny W. (G

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini ... 't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should be used to, and things hit you one after another. Last week, I had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  experienced. I was forced to take a good hard look at everything I was and try ... really to speak. They could feel the sheer nervousness just radiating off ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  force a particular card to stick in our minds while rifling through a ... They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  unproductive because I work better in the morning, and sleep is forcing me to not ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a ... ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  of college. I found that the more I was up and about, forcing myself to ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  days to be exact. It's also the first semester without Freshmen Pass/No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... /train ride over to Philadelphia for a fully-packed 3-day fraternity leadership

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  forced me to take stock of what relationships I’ve been able to form in ... Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  's work. If I'm forced to subscribe to capitalism, I'm going to make damn ... love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... receiving the head scritches I am dying to give them. [carousel image1

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  important that you do it out loud) so that you're forced to put your thoughts ... . Engage them. Ask them questions. FORCE THEM TO ASK YOU QUESTIONS. I try to ... nothing at all. It was fifth grade science class. Each student had to design

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog’ to me since she has decided that there are better and productive

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an ... seemed like a solid second bet. Besides, I’m out here to gather new skills

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the ... , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... to be visiting. MIT After going through the surprisingly crowded

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  to the Admissions website, and were going to feature staff and student ... he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to ... moved to South Carolina (where they were from originally) and I left my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025