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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of ... on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive urge to blog about my shoes. Understand, reader, that I had journeyed by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  school she once longed to attend. ''It's his dream and my dream together ... how much they'll miss having him around. ''I've tried to prepare myself ... wanted to go there. Only she didn't - she couldn't. Her family, which had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  -and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... day -- and I still needed to train in between everything as well. For context, I'm more the kind of guy who needs 8-9 hours to feel like a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  effective when learning, but it does result in me frantically trying to drag ... normally don't have that much to write, but I end up having just enough to ... sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some ... take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... 's fine, cuz I promised to work out this year, and that I will. Soon! On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  myself, "Do I really need to go to lecture?" That answer happened to be no ... , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during ... to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  needs to be up, who then wakes up the next person who has to be up, and so ... to make us feel better. However, there are some nice things about ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap ... royal guard. Like a freshman? Haha, no, you aren't allowed to do that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  much all Course 10 tests are open notes. The 10.10: Intro to Chemical ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  just need to look like one for the night. Before the first time I went ... chapter always angst about this and try to figure out why and what to do ... -Blood Prince. We also got to see the printing presses. I bet most people have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  figuring out where to live, so don't worry TOO much about it. CPW is about ... members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... , and most importantly....food. (seriously, there's so much food for you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  ; Once the 2016 election was over, we wanted to make sure that this could ... Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  once the second semester started. In order to compensate for the ... did not know what to do outside of work once the summer came around. The ... studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to ... closer to our dorm. I couldn’t believe how much the morning had been full ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015