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• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... as some incarnation of death (?). I have no idea. But hooray for ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  York Times bestselling!) novelist who’s also written comics for Marvel ... medium for pretty much all of us. Most recently, we’ve been considering ... website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in ... for warmer weather! Even if that's not meant to be, NYC's food scene and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... got into his car. He set his GPS for Framingham, MA, slightly over ... for the existence of God, the evolution of ideas as time bypassed the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... share my personal system for dealing with nerves; I do acknowledge that you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I ... still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into ... through a ceiling panel and hiding up there. Midnight: time for business

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  already here on the site -- for example, about standardized test ... include the MIT Supplemental Document Cover Sheet from MyMIT for any ... cover sheet will be fine, too, as long as there is enough information for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... class for me, so my attention was divided between a sort of limerence for ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  site -- for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics ... may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... them in time for our review. If you do not send them directly and plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail, Stuntcopter. I think for a time there I thought my dad must play fun games for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... -slickers we apparently are, and decided to head for warmer climates for the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -sounding idiom), I no longer have an excuse for putting off this blog entry until T ... ? How do students make time for research during the academic year, or do ... summer, for me to build and test batteries that wouldn't explode or melt or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger-scalding hours in preparation for an all-bacon dinner for 40 people, packed two ... summer that curves just short of preparations for the impending semester

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and ... most of the later rounds cheering for the teams that had shown the ... started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance ... the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of ... finished 8th grade), if not for the unhappy fact that I climbed 253 flights

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... hyperenergetic refueling station for the 2009 Mystery Hunt team members as we ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... 're not done yet! When you get to campus for orientation you'll stay in your ... 'm sure other bloggers would be happy to describe other methods for other

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  Science and Technology Initiatives) is the umbrella organization for a lot ... decentralized. So, for example, if there was a professor at MIT from a particular ... always ask for help- for example, my company doesn't provide housing, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008