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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... 'm considering applying to be an RTA this summer, too! Along the same lines as CTD

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  is what we’re trying to get out of the way before the start of the ... succumbed to. At the top right is a cool mobile hanging from the ceiling of the lobby on the first floor. The lobby is open to the public during the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  stopped to get some of the best hot chocolate I have ever had in my life ... - so we didn't get to see the eclipse, either. But the view on the way ... season, and there is a line to the summit past the 8th or 9th station - but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  this was enough, and we quickly left the room to get some air outside. We ... , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  . Responsibility for the house is shared by all and everyone is expected to do their ... a good breakfast to start the day. I guess this is my way of carrying ... dormitories. We're there to offer advice, make sure there is soda in the pop

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  it exists, at least not in the clean, sequential way I want it to. The ... through with it; if there was no reasonable way to fill in the value for 'x ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  your solution to a problem, pi is the ith particular subproblem, and s ... too. It's easy to think that the best candidate is the broadest and ... solutions to all your design criteria, and then your proposed solution is just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... all the way up to the fourth floor. Alan: By “go all the way up to the ... for the record that “the spreadsheet” CJ is referring to was made by him

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  would get this out by fall break AHHHH and then i spent way too much time ... animals and boba orders were, and we learned all the different ways to send ... and launched our website and our annual CTF puzzles and managed to get

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  Theory and Logic. taught by henry cohn, who is hands-down one of the best ... 'd you get your band name?" "Is that your real first name?" "Can you text ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  , you tilt your phone to get the little jumper dude to jump on platforms ... /hardware systems in the way this class just expected you to. The labs taught you how ... the course staff), so it was simply faster to get help from a classmate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... /effort walking is like, fine...i'm too lazy to get a bike i REALLY regret my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  Lobby 7 on my way to take the 3.091 (Solid State Chem) midterm. Quick ... to get lunch. Run to Masseh to get food to-go. 13:57: Run through the ... cow hanging from the ceiling. Mooooo. 17:15: Make my way to Barker

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  sleep earlier, but the process of getting ready for bed has way too many steps. Get up. Grab a change of clothes. Wait for the shower to ... shower. Wait for it to warm up. Get in the shower. Shower. Get out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  . It probably is dangerous, the way I talk to people. I have the ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  at MIT, so it was a nice way to get the gang back together after CPW ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... may have never stumbled across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a ... or getting the much cheaper Google Cardboard, which works with any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  to the singer, which is somehow impossible despite your best efforts ... spiraling, smaller thoughts and feelings. Here is my best attempt to describe ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  application is, by its very nature, an invitation for you to highlight your ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007