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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since ... will be forced to make a really lame one, and then make up another person ... new banner. (That, and I've hit a creative roadblock.) I am

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I ... 't find much, decides to make things juicy by adding "College ... ), I don't know. Need to pass the time between now and admissions? You

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  goal than to experience as much as possible with the funds and time I was ... wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse ... technology I would design. Flash forward 11 years and not much has changed, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  then moseyed over to the Swapfest at Albany and Vassar Streets. Several ... musical prowess to a wide audience, so I donned my corridor gear and ... accompaniment to the chair-rolling and general carafe mayhem. We reached

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... , Senior House is one of the most inexpensive dorms to live in and has a ... high share of underrepresented minority students, and according to the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other ... all amazing- driven, motivated, really smart, and fun to be around. The ... I got to reunite and hang out with all the WTP girls who went to CPW

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  .002 (What was I trying to do, taking 39 CS units of virtual class?) and added ... about my blog and she promised to check it out (hello if you’re reading ... friend (also international) calls me and swears she’s moving to Canada (she

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  down the hall to Carlos '09 and say, "What up? I'm sick, so excuse me ... year. The last time I felt the compulsion to sniiffle, sneeze, and cough ... , where I decide that hard-and-fast rules and statements apply to everyone

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  all that I could -- and wanted -- to manage on an eventful month ... . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... impactful experiences of my life, a testament to our shared values and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I ... of what it's like to be a mechanical engineer at MIT, and something of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  to and from California twice more, and to Arkansas once. (Frequent ... 've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... visiting with my family and trying to do as little as possible before the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I ... summer room at EC, and he also needed to run to Target, Costco, and a few

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... be able to return no matter where my adventures take me. And because ... my motivation, talent, future goals, mental health, and decision to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... will convey my thoughts to those who end up reading this, and whether

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  the city today, and I was proud of myself to discover that I actually ... Victorian Era comedy, and it ROCKED. Anyway, I'm going to sleep, we have some museums to visit bright and early tomorrow. One bonus about the weekend? I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  shows this semester, and it's so nice to just sit down next to friends and ... each other—there's no expectation to—but you're friends, and so you ... their friends and friends' friends to dining. sometimes, you even see

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on ... my technicals, I'm taking 6.006, Intro to Algorithms, and 5

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... able to advocate most compellingly on your behalf and have them send ... their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however ... forces you to study and furthermore provides you with a wide range of study materials. If you're good at self-studying, however, and have access to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005