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  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  because these are usually the most noticeable (in a list rather than a ... once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  scale,) and this particular blog post, like most things, is up to the ... pie had a hidden cost in the form of this rating inquisition. Not one to ... information in order to make a decision, but there is no substitute for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  to the show as much as i could this time around. Ideating in the first ... and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so ... top to bottom in our costumes, giving comments, and then repeating the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn ... week, we will be selling carnations and irises to raise money for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to Concourse in that what they look at is an intersection, the ... communities in general is how much care goes into making the first year at MIT ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  year is mostly just to not break anything. (For the clueless, these ... . So my task is to keep the trains running efficiently during that time ... to address me is fine. The only tactic I've seen that I don't find

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... . Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually the piper must be paid. 2. It ... don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  important thing is to find what you love and do it to the utmost of your ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind lately, and it's got me thinking about incredible people and what it is in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to every stop on the T without leaving. The T is central to the college ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the ... A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... needed to. But do I want to drop things in the first place? Do I really want to spend more time being alone? Maybe the reason I’m doing so much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  this program is only open to MIT students, the application pool to these opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time ... maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  , he looks like a really nice person. His face is the most indicative of ... important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In ... weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... , sometimes even looking forward to another afternoon on the Charles River. In

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  manager has sidled up to the counter and is standing behind his employee ... professionalism, was the necessary component. Also key, Khan says, is to enjoy the ... model everyone wants to emulate. This is a hit with the audience. On

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year ... exhibit but I did go into the gift shop to see if I wanted to buy anything ... 500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... joke here] Term is in full swing: pset parties are everywhere, the ... , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  in Boston is MIT. The roads here are so much more chaotic, and there ... ’t you the least bit terrified?” “Is it even legal for you to drive here ... in English. “Yeah, but what about the states that don’t?” To my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  dynamic city in the world, I began to wonder if the direction my life is ... packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . This is in response to the idea of eternal recurrence, put forward by ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and ... things we'd do together, once he'd moved in. We'd go to the square dances

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025