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  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  rolling backpacks and headgear. It's not that my throwback to the early 90s ... haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of ... , and trampoline. What? Of course I'm not trying to peer pressure you into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  figure out what's wrong and take steps to fix the problem, but much of the ... important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... out to teach you how to think, and how to approach thinking, and how to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT, and regret that we ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... , we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... sad. But no more. For today I have free food. And there is much

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... " to the end of it. "But it's black beans and rice flambé, Mom!" didn ... right next to East Campus and down the street from Senior House. There are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  , then mosey over to wherever the add/drop forms exist on Websis, and type ... out to be totally true the buildings have names, not numbers, and the ... own jargon, too, though it doesn’t seem to have as much. On the first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  prolonged immunity response to pathogens and put them on the Pseudomonas ... to do, with pictures! (my description above is greatly abbreviated and ... to rigorous AP or university-level classes in our Junction and Delve

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  . You are not the tidy person you once were. Little piles are starting to emerge and your disorganization is starting to affect your life and inconvenience you. Things are just starting to get out of hand and become

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  everyone on the team took time to answer my questions, and I conferred with ... work to the master branch and how the different parts of the project fit together. I kept taking slightly more complicated tasks, and referred to my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... eighth grade. I had just moved from Texas to Maryland, and I was going

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  past year consisted of things much bigger and better than the story of my ... F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D. My last final is over, my boxes are packed, and I need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  globe to explore new labs, new methods and new research projects. Here is ... about cellular biology, but also a chance to improve my French and learn ... particles called exosomes. I managed to isolate exosomes and show that they

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  o'clock to hit before stepping into the pool area and heading to the ... frustration with my life. i'm doing too much homework and i'm not really ... to see if anyone could talk, or even come over and give me a hug. but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  someone has a little too much wine and gets up on stage and tries to ... 're looking to do something as mindless as possible. And this is where my ... ~10% to Simon, Paula, and Randy - the former because they actually have

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  in machine shops. And there is so much more to learn, so many projects ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... , it was to have the title You Knew What MIT Would Be, and it was going

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do ... in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done ... coordination challenge—I have to play, conduct, and change[annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... school apps now, and am back from blogging hiatus! I've spent so much time ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... , metal, and wood. Of course, it is not necessarily limited to these ... fonts, downloaded them to the computers which run the laser cutters, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012