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• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue ... eventually they adjusted their wardrobes so as to prevent me from sobbing (look

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  would like to give me to make it much easier on me? Okay, I'm out of dorky ... beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  is always the responsible route, but I struggle to grasp that too much ... ’t manage to rest enough when I got sick, and I felt weak for much of October ...   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... demonstrate your desire to challenge yourself and take risks, you don't "need" a ... parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  believe that the economists might have something useful to say about this topic. Questions to be taken up include, but are not limited to: Is ... others fall further behind? Does growth help the poor? Does foreign aid

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would ... This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and ... intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  ticketed several hundreds of dollars. It happened to a friend of ours. Once ... now, if it is after hours you will need to walk around the building (see ... to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  council so much and I wish we were in person so I could get to know them ... dedicated to consulting specifically for social impact. I don't know much ... One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  just too much of a standard to live up to. I had a friend of my ... will need too. Stay kind, but remember that that includes being kind to ... good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  much more fun to play. Sidequests: 4/10. Eh, they're kind of dumb and don't do much to character develop the main characters...only tangential ... . The trope of 'gruff man warms to child' really does it for me (@God of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  walk across the floor to ask her to borrow it. Pretty much, the majority ... was able to get a lovely chicken and egg dish, much like the one that ... , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  together that much, since you really just needed to code your own solution ... semester, we just decided to take much more deliberate advantage of this ... class together! Not all twins are like this, but we just happened to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  meeting for my job. I don't have much to say, so I kind of just sit there ... ... It's refreshing to see how much people care about building and ... sitting in them. Read: I need to exercise more. Course Road will chew you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  needed to customize its own site to unleash the magic and bring blogging to ... much easier to skip the niceties and jump straight to the nerdy pick ... 'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  later in the semester, but the dinners need to be in by late October for ... I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  majors. On the other hand, if you don't have very much AP credit to begin ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year ... best to make this decision post-CPW when you've formed your own opinions

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... individual would need to be familiar with Matlab and Unix environment

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  this time, high school was pretty much over, so I didn’t know where to ... , so I went to the teacher and got the insight I needed to do well in the ... fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022