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  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... expensive). March 22nd came and Michelle and I loaded up our backpacks with ... looked around for prefrosh. None. We headed towards Dunkin' Donuts for some

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... corresponded. Fun for toute la famille! I think that you could play the same game ... movements for you, and sings the chorale melody on which the entire cantata is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  spectrum of introductory classes as you established a track for elective ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... your application essay for MIT should probably use a little more varied ... prepositional phrases are always nice too. When I Grow Up When I grow up, I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... this year). Stu's blog posting is closed for comments, but some replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  little to show for it-- I always end up back where I started. (Maybe bike ... travels. But what if you throw a ball up into the air and catch it at the ... go back to the book example, what if I were to pick up that book and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  other up. The event only lasted an hour, but I was smiling for the rest of ... went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  . Anyways, I made up a really crappy but maybe useful timeline for when you ... junior lab roster), and perhaps 20 more 8-B majors. Add that all up and it makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  ="90191" /] Someone actually responded! We met up at Maseeh and exchanged $15 for a ... harvest the cap. But alas it was simply not attainable for reasons detailed in this dormspam I sent out of desperation: I will pay $15 for an H2GO

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  will suggest further directions for investigation or provide an opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do ... to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... pushing the buttons for the demonstration while Tara holds the stag head up ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  ago and stands for Independent Awesome Period (not really, but it might ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  all these people going up these boulders several meters up into the air ... a bit and try to place myself better, but end up just standing there, waiting for something but not really knowing what. After a bit I thud back

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed because I didn't remember half the vocabulary for this exam; because I fell ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  catch up on sleep over this break but I traded it for social time ... ="I’ve heard people say this actually kinda works for algorithms, but thus far it has not proven successful for intro organic chem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... up. We walked around the park that evening -- in Tucson summer everything takes place at night; only those with a special disregard for sweat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  rare this quality is"]they will show up for their show and be there on ... even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  -11, and opened up my book. I read for a long time. It’s pleasant, under the ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  really knowing what I was in for. Either way, somehow I ended up here, and ... equipment, cook meals for each other, split up the cleaning chores. We plan ... , for example, is Maia: the oldest sailing sister. She gave birth to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  trouble a lot of the time, but it's also important to speak up for what you ... bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... little moments where I would crack. Where I would think about it for too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020