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  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... 21M.840: Create a text for a 3-5 minute performance. This text must be

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

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , Globe Staff | June 15, 2005 CAMBRIDGE -- Daron Acemoglu grew up in Turkey ... MIT, he came up with an answer. Acemoglu's groundbreaking work in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... : I got fed up with racing home from school everyday to check on the ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  Financial Services (SFS) websites for the most up-to-date information ... . Not only is the entire process of applying for financial aid confusing ... the U.S. that is need blind and full need for all of our undergraduate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... started! There are two computer options for MIT: Desktops and laptops. Both ... Macs. Which Mac though? >Macbook Macbooks are great for your typical

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  Seeing all the parents converge on MIT campus for Family Weekend ... 're still with them. This is especially true for all you high school seniors who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  have such different calender schedules? For example, are there issues ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for example. But it may be getting easier for fall term cross registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . 21W.013, which set up the way I wrote and approached essays for the ... I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  shape up my time-managment skills, and I had enough money to pay for any ... , my family sat down around the kitchen table for a discussion. My dad ... pieces of scrap paper. Finally, he looked up and said, "Well, we can pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  we stayed in Caetani Castle for a week. We hauled our luggage up the ... me two days of begging Admir for him to promise to open the doors over ... people. We were shown around the stables as well and were told it held up

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  myself up for frequent maximal states of flow. Then comes the hard part ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two exams this semester: 6.046 and 7.012.   [STEP 1] TRAIN FOR BATTLE

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  dirt driveway in our costumes, usually something my mother sewed for us ... pretend to be all surprised for trick-or-treaters and she’d hand each of us ... - but I guess I was the one handing out the candy. I dressed up as a black

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... further ado, let’s embark on our Tour de Frat! Phi Beta Epsilon First up is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... notes and posting them after, leaving three (3) different files for notes for every lecture, all with different amounts of material. On top of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something

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

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as ... a pretty good job at. ...Better than Petey, who straight up looks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for ... can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  experimental, part-edX class called Creating Digital Learning Materials for ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... sped up snippets of the reversed erasing clips to match them up with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015