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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  the best team ever, or the time we got to eat free burritos during ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  move on from here. -- To me, summer has always been the time for some ... about life@MIT, feel free to post them here. Same goes for ’15?s ’16?s ’17 ... to share another project I have for the summer; I bought it as a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  ) on a mini-roadtrip to the small town of Brenham, home of Blue Bell ice ... career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered ... plus. We told her we'd be back on Wednesday for the WASH cluster meeting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  for the pain, and I'll be able to sleep at night pain-free. After the ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed ... Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  the same time. Well, I eventually decided to settle for the spamless ... taking pictures for a semi-forever period of time, I took pictures on ... that claims on its menu to not be a “tapas restaurant.” Characters

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  think being able to struggle on problems for long periods of time without ... mathematician can have, or necessary for success. It’s important to celebrate ... 've essentially followed the "path of most math" for most of my life up to this

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  high school, I got a 95 on my first 8.01 test after studying for like one ... after getting a 79 on my second 5.112: Chem for Masochists test. It wasn ... paying attention to the fact that I was getting all the answers wrong on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  decade ago. And when I played back then, it was an unorganized free-for ... prison is fairly far away from MIT, but UNH had arranged for us to travel ... (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) training exercise. Twenty insurgents

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... [/caption] Living on my own for the first time and spending most of my day on research/self study, I began to realize that I needed something for me, outside of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... been listening to too much Enon, since "Disposable Parts" has been on ... for a National Institutes of Health study on minority students majoring

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  imaginary plane. I was fortunate enough to accompany her on one of her grocery ... hallucinations of a McDonald's worker on NyQuil, so I departed to my floor in ... cookies for her professors, which to me seems like baking a batch of tenure

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together ... I spend on my psets. And that way, I’ll have my evenings free to watch ... excited to try new things. For the first four semesters of MIT, this has led

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  beach over radio and talk to each other on air while driving (probably not ... side of the globe!' or 'i talked to my next door neighbor on radio', and ... been trying very hard to clean up the place for the past few weeks. It

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  office for 5 minutes waiting for my electricity to come back on, but it ... running on 19% power. Ohh man. Time for me to submit this thing! So I ended ... Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  a SaveTFP (which stands for Save This F***ing Place) event to get free ... that gave artists resources and guidance to create art centered on mental ... views and gives feedback on everyone’s weekly work). This week

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  upperclassmen scrambling to finish their quantum problem sets also provided for ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  a bit on your regular action applications. As I like to say, plan for ... interest to early and regular action applicants. For Regular Action ... for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  pictures. On the hike back to the cars, we stop for some snowtubing. It was ... supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... turned on, it had been turned all the way up to freezing. We unplugged it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  able to advocate most compellingly on your behalf and have them send ... their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be ... more or less exactly how the PDFs are generated for us. A note on text

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013