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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small ... remember coming to MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) and meeting people ... . I was really surprised to be exposed to aspects of culture and

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

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  lakes in Rhode Island to begin with…!), played games, ate smores, and much ... DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully ... an eternity and the underground route from E25 to Lobby 7 seemed just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... facility is spacious and unassuming (not to mention home to a small archive ... the original Star Trek movie, and also the main door to the CIC of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... and I'm tempted to cross the room and hit snooze, it's like a little ... unplugged my alarm and pulled my window shade before going to bed at 3 AM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  . Admissions tries to match prefrosh and hosts well, but there's only so much you ... . I did, and I related much more to the culture there than I did to ... you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  . Best of luck, and remember you have so much life ahead of you to do good ... mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  around the country. But I digress and philosophize. To pass the time until ... forthcoming?), and then headed over to the Colonial Park Diner for some late ... , the other team chooses a player to get up and convey as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be ... out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I ... hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein ... , orange juice, and large coffee from Café Four to my favorite empty ... , mechanical pencils, and glitter fairy stickers to put on my problem sets. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... persevered and managed to design my very first NOT gate in 6.002 lab ... world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... -gritty, and so if you don't learn everything, you could be screwed. I went to ... much larger and toothier than lab mice, and as such they kind of give me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  heard from me, I had just turned in my thesis and was going to a meeting ... days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and pineapple soda the ... , and all that was left to me was to rewrite the introductory paragraph to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed ... , Good luck to those finishing regular decision apps! And Happy New Year ... , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  alley, they appeared to be drilling holes into the pavement and covering ... my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get ... consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  . Usually, 8.01 and 8.02 suffice. Calculus: -18.01/18.02 (which you have to ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT ... Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  working computer, and some free time to go through my photos from the ... took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... Course 6 to better understand and contribute to the policy debate. For the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  free to be as incoherent as you like, and don't lose too much sleep over ... It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  , does it take so long? Well, think about everything that needs to happen ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to ... thanks and encouragement to our awesome records office team: Sofia, Sue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... concept of rushing, and he'd felt similar to me when first coming to MIT

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for ... , running to home depot (an adventure every time), and building/setting up pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009