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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!

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... any plans for tomorrow?" Their responses were like this: "Tomorrow ... Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  motivated enough, but for some reason this seemed like a good idea, so I went ... Italy) and enjoy the smells so I had to settle for going to Bunker Hill. I ... . "Cross suchandsuch a bridge for .25 miles." Yessir Google Maps, I'm at

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  looking for summer work. Wow, I'm beginning to like this place! My mom and I flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to ... while watching the Discovery Channel (I was meant for MIT!) until my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... for the one-semester class 10.26: Project Laboratory in Chemical ... are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... element- more specifically, an auxiliary verb. For example, the sentence "I'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in tangible and pragmatic ways. For example, check out the MIT-Washington DC ... Democratic Caucus... Four years ago, for the 2000 election, Andrew attended

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2021, which are unmarked. This post will contain spoilers for ... ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for reading and giving comments on drafts of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... U.S. with programs tailored specifically for small-town and rural ... the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... ="aligncenter" width="225"] yay 6.1010![/caption] 6.1200: a.k.a Math for Computer ... song about graph theory for the class earlier this week, which I’ll write

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post. If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for ... ; most importantly being the producer, a.k.a me. The producers for last

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  've been blocked on finishing some post ideas for several weeks now. So ... inadequate for my needs. And also when its spacebar and Enter key broke, so it became mostly unusable without an external keyboard. I started hunting for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  blogs for many years might remember that i've been writing love poems to ... listen to. i just have so many playlists for like literally everything that ... . running - lol i wonder what this is for :P i actually made this playlist

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... you. But that last sentence is something I've been struggling with for ... 't realize exactly how unprepared I was for my classes. I knew MIT was hard. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , helped start a yearly Black pre-frosh fly-in weekend for Ebony Affair — the ... Missouri, Yale University, and Ithaca College. For the first time since the ... stood silently for a photo. We had more allies than we thought.  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... verbalizing protocols for a state exam. It took me almost a year of watching ... conversations, I’d suggest getting started before 8am. Your body is, for all

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend ... important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... &M University-Commerce for middle school students, high school students, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well ... . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam wanted to buy Brain Age for his Nintendo DS. He won; we bought the game

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006