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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... Undergraduate Association rallied hard for faculty to change their semester plans, and to allow for students to take an actual break during the four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  hours, too. Also, thank you for your lovely responses to my last post. I ... out to me. Video Games Free games to play with friends skribbl ... apps to use Codecademy Pro - Codecademy is offering students free

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  for the past few months, from 7 to 10 pm, I've thought about that ... who made Talking Shoe, for responding to my emails and giving me some ... can't exactly wear a naked Arduino on your foot.  We needed to build an

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small ... explained the "casing the joint" means "looking around for things to steal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  'll save mine for then.) There are lots of sessions for PE classes -- 2 ... workout designed to focus on toning and strengthening while utilizing self ... skills for beginners who wish to learn this fast moving indoor racquet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  and something needs to piece me back together. me: no worries, I’m on it ... few weeks ago, I was heading over to my sorority house to study one ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  me!? Decisions on the 22nd?????????? Ok, time for the debunking to ... 22nd, they may come out on Christmas (at which point I'd have to lol ... acceptable so I'll try to keep it to a minimum. Feel free to use your

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  ! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has ... cappella and guitar. I listen to different music depending on how I feel a ... .e. a day on which I want to listen to classical music and feel all kinds

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and ... to share my enthusiasm for the awesome construct that is the memory

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  !). ------------------------------------- abstract wrote, "ummm... to break the long debate on percentages, do you know ... financial aid tracking; wait for more information on that. We do not track ... to me, and I got only 710 on the SAT I Math and 700 on the SAT II Math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  -regularly for updates on deadlines and use it to get your questions answered. Your ... accordingly on time.  If you are using prescription medicines, try to find a ... . There can be restrictions on what you can carry so it is best to plan

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... capacity for deceit while hooked up to a polygraph, human dog sledding ... Rails's unwillingness to install properly on his computer. 4:00 PM It

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... dorm to work on the project over the weekend, and also get an extra part ... playsentations, so getting to class on time with the supplies was really important

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little ... for free so I figured  that was the perfect path to my cubicle. It was ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning ... , extracurricular activities, and so on. I'm writing to reaffirm that, consistent with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming experience for me even when there are angry Boston drivers on the road. Where

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  food for free to MIT's students. I wasn't there, but I'm told that the ... for her meal. From left to right: Admissions intern Marivel Oropeza ... , because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  a job. He says, "at MIT, it's good to always be on the lookout for ... on biology-related projects at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ... "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013