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  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is ... introduce you to a couple of them here. Enjoy! Quynh Nguyen '15    Hello

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter* Little did they know that by mentioning MIT to me at that early age they ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  best of it and kill two birds with one stone by taking a class that ... from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly ... -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a ... do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... technique of choice is to delete files en mass and never look back. It is also ... has led to hundreds of notes to delete, and I thought I'd share some

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don ... student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... whirlwind of finding an apartment in Boston. No free-food events, but plenty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  moods, and this was one of those times -- but this one was definitely catalyzed by a sense of urgency: I was leaving MIT so soon, and I felt like I ... background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  inspirational as the last. This year, he wrote:                (words by Neil Gaiman, typography-ish revamp by me) As I enter my sophomore year ... . Unlike the majority of admitted students enthusiastically celebrating à la

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build a bridge out of paper, paper clips, and pencils under tight time ... up against those of MIT students? Diane said that the visitors

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth-crippling refreshes of https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php. If this sounds like you ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  . Therefore, by MIT standards, it is referred to as 10-250 (ten two-fifty). It's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... 't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... 's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  , "by the time your roommate is out of grad school, you've been promoted ... The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... MIT. Most of these students were those "normal students" people always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005