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  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the ... - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or ... _____X In addition, I've been trying to get more involved in environmental

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  -deprivation competition. Get together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV ... . Title Link: I Am Prepared, get it? IAP... (it's okay if you don't want to

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and ... just my neighbor. Me and my mom. Return to hotel. LUXURY NUMBER TWO: A

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of ... build a treehouse.” Or, in normal-person-speak: hey, I kind of like this ... because I function in a perpetual state of procrastination. “But Natanya

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme ... unfortunate, since it meant I stayed out until after 2 AM and had to get my butt

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77 ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden ... , is now getting his PhD in a neuroengineering lab at Stanford. ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  life is getting a little too hard and i want to remind myself of all the ... had never been to a single concert in my life before freshman year of ... ="and david bowie died before i had enough money to go see him in a concert

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... CAKE! Me: Um...are you going to be in here for a while? Like...for the ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad ... few weeks you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look from yours truly at the ... at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  in my 30 day trial period to tinker around and make a couple videos for ... filmmaking skillz). I should probably also put in a shameless plug to join the ... creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  but support my dream to always stay in academia. I know doing a UROP as ... was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  . As a result, starting to take courses relevant to our major in a ... very least, you won't have to experience your hardest semester in an ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  your photo, and not get left behind. The piece is supposed to suggest ... get really cold during the winter and it’s a pain to sit on them ... ’s brilliant to just stand in front of it and look up and take it in. I’m a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At ... had a lot worse happen to me. And now, for your moment of zen, a (young ... September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I ... monotonous. The setting? Indeed. But in the same way that a good book can carry ... 's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006