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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the ... one. Need to finish that by Thursday. My week's a mess, agreed? No ... knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  student! This is the kind of place MIT is. There is naturally much more to ... , as much as I would often hate to admit it. And I wanted to go to MIT ... few other FIRST students to create the DIY Segway. I didn't build much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  applicant. It's not to be wowed, or feel like we need to read the most unique ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... this year. Although our application does not go live for another few

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  need to be retreived), I noticed that there was a really neat view out of ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... ?" "On a picnic. Do you want to come?" "...Where?" "Killian Court. We have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim, I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... once we know it; we'll likely make that announcement on the blogs late

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  remember something Ben once said, "I want to remind people that I didn't go to MIT, and I happen to like my life very much. MIT is an amazing place ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  's. Having a couple backup wi-fi spots could be just what you need to keep your ... ask as many questions as you need to do the best job you can. Make ... local, get used to it. Enjoy yourself! But not too much. Getting the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  could read so many pages. I never knew I could drink so much coffee. I ... officers have tried to mix in healthy snack choices (radishes or carrots) into their consumption, but the loud mouth-crunching tends to interrupt

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as ... in my room, but I need to attend to that this weekend. I like to see

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  relevant to engineering leadership. After much discussion, we settled on a ... teams needed only black pieces. Each Lego had a point value assigned to it ... minutes. ELLs are two hours long, so we obviously needed to throw in some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  interacting with had to learn English, because so much technological ... ended up speaking some Spanish anyway when I needed to get a point across ... would be totally lost. There is always so much to learn, even when you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  stuff now that I never thought I'd ever need to know, and I imagine ... - deciding what you want, what you need and how you're going to get it. When ... want to be one of them, and so I have prayed for you!!" Much as my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  happened more recently first. So obviously, I need to cover what I did over ... adventures in EE), I didn't do much this IAP, so I should be able to just knock ... attempt to cover everything you really need to know about a topic (usually a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... wrong in a house! Studying: I need to get credit for 18.03, Differential ... with a very long homework packet, which I need to . . . start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  disapprove); if you need to cough, turn away from the table and cough into a ... sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We're stereotyped as awkward nerds with grody neckbeards who shower once a month

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... MIT: If you don't know much about MIT, this might be a good place to ... during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  fact that so much water can freeze never ceases to amaze me: This photo ... tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry ... year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people ... cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008