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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  , condensed version of the Yellow Pages, but I didn't really follow. Jewel did ... , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On ... to the pen section. Har har A fun Saturday!

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... . But I wanted to highlight the importance of match because when I was in ... was the most prestigious to which I had been accepted (and because Jon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  out of showed me what I didn't want to pursue in the future. As a junior ... There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were both difficult but possible to understand. I really enjoyed both of them

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems, but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action ... , and while trying to figure out “behind-the-scenes” of the committee ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  went with that one. Methane Bubble Traps The goal of my UROP is to ... contribute to our understanding of the global methane budget. To quote my UROP ... lake just before the end of term. We've gone back to collect samples a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  went to a few of the steak and lobster dinners, but this year I followed ... to the Food Orgy event, which is a party full of food—with one rule ... free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... the door, especially while I was napping. 4) An earlier version of the secret knock consisted of banging the top of the door really hard. Another

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them ... room has started to smell faintly of mildew, and old people. And all of ... -run volunteer ambulance service that provides basic life support to the MIT campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  the strip of un-painted-ness to be signable and SHAZAM! It was. And I ... Connie. So those are the six cribs of Burton 1 we chose to highlight ... 't seen the movie yet, but I would find it hard to believe that the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing ... the things you want to do outside of classes. In my case, I want to blog ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  the meaning of Pass/No Record.  I thought I'm going to take all ... classes range from the Science of Explosions to Engineering Polymers to Resume Writing to Introductory Philosophy.  I do admit that some of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that time, it's remained one of the most widely read and shared posts on the ... , had thought enough of the post that she had translated it into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... Haus in the housing lottery and then sent me an email asking to fix the ... the meantime, take this picture of a drawing of a Slowpoke as a token of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  prepared you to dive headlong into the rigors of MIT, but on the other end of ... , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma splices to make the Voynich Manuscript look like Shakespeare. No what I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  , though. More of a queer millennial scene compared to the gay Gen Z hordes ... . Again, an icon. Overall? One of the best concerts I've ever been to, and ... Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  easiest class. 2.006 = Thermal Fluids II. The sequel to my favorite class ever, 2.005. 2.006, just like 2.005, has the potential to trounce me. I ... competitive robot for an end-of-the-semester competition. 2.00b = Toy Design

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  day). 496. Other than the classes, there's plenty of time every day to ... Spain had taught me how to appreciate the "little moments" of my life ... every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  anything else you want us to know about.   On the last section of ... Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012