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• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... spent 2 months preparing for it and was so depressed when I got 116, 4 ... dormmates come up: "Hey Chris, good morning! You're up early today

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  4th and Goal – College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... ’t put up posters until I was leaving. My walls were bare for years ... football games and drum set at basketball games. I miss standing up for each

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has ... she walks into Walker Memorial, three weeks into the semester, for her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  ’ve watched my mom answer for herself all the years I grew up. Every time she ... , not for more than a few weeks, a traveller passing through her old ... you grew up here, a hardness and a hardiness to everything that lives

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  and also going to Boston. As I lined up for boarding, he lined up at the ... look up flights to Boston from NY for me ? Ruth Yeah I have lost all ... unbearably long time, he hung up the phone and printed out a boarding pass for

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... prevents you from clicking submit before 11:59 PM EST (technically, EDT for ... questions that are completely optional for any number of reasons and are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  journey. This post is scheduled to go up on the day of the 2021 Virtual ... the weather outside is a chilling 2021.   For your safety and comfort ... for being my number one support system that I can always turn to. We

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Vegas). This flight is 6 hours long, but for the past 6 hours, I’ve been ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of ... ’t working for me. Those kinds of introspections can’t be forced. They will

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  , which gives grants of up to 10K for projects that foster community, for ... in mind for this semester. We've been having exec meetings through ... finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  supervising a few new website tricks we have up our sleeves for rollout later ... began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... for the Engineers Without Borders-MIT Chapter. Engineers Without Borders ... developing countries to improve their quality of life. One of our projects, for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  into the stream and let the running water charge it up for use that night ... until later (i.e. never). Ready, go. 1. I'm being published. For realz ... interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... did spruce it up a bit: This picture really doesn't adequately ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the two: fight (by studying hard for two weeks), then flight (home for the holidays!) Many students will come back to MIT around January 7 for ... worrying about problem sets. Well, that’s not 100% true, there are some for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  students. He spoke very openly about his passion for research, love for MIT, outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  freshmen show up here every fall, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and fresh from ... ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the ... complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of ... one of America's top universities -- will compete for a full scholarship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  signed up for a couple online tutoring sites and, after a few weeks of ... for the first time ever Mailed letters to loved ones Set up a ... to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  up at MIT for grad school. Or you will ... the list is honestly endless ... , raspberry finger tip disease Times Are Hard for Dreamers  Tour de France mash-up ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... such useful tips as do's and don'ts for a first date. She also had plenty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006