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  Kick . . . start

  

  months. Yay!!! Either that or you're gearing up and anxiously awaiting the ... summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect ... build interactive exhibits for museums AND design/build interactive

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... transition. How could someone give up heading a top academic department

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  favorite, a wind-up boogie robot I just recently sorted, organized, and ... under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... conventional sense, my priorities were screwed up. However, to continue with the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  made any sense. But this is the "growing-up" we've been asking for. Well ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... beside the lonesome bus stops in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... Dial Gold soap It fully upheld my vitality As I hiked up the 'Tute

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  those are kind of cool, they end up not knowing anything about the fine arts or history or any of that lame-o stuff. Well, today I woke up at 8 AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their ... the Great Plains. Here's my entire meeting schedule for the fall ... you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  held one question out for further inspection. Melissa had asked, "Do you ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid that all my future female companions will end up in all the different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow ... Parade on January 2. Watch for the Pickerington band! And maybe watch for ... somehow end up giving my hairdressers when I'm getting my hair cut. ("No, we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  calendars until after EA selection, so I haven't had time for much else (although we were allowed to take thursday off for Thanksgiving). I spent Thanksgiving morning in the ER with my 6-month old son, after staying up all

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 'm looking for a large sample size, so don't be a lurker -- tell me why you ... for students who have an interview or have an interview waived is higher

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  alarm for 11:20 AM* 11:58 AM: *wakes up, peers at clock* *falls back ... even up to $30 to purchase supplies for Splash) to do whatever, and quite ... stuff: And finally! Weeee. Now you know why I can't wake up for my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  thoughts about coding and my coding experience that have been building up for ... everyone else so coming up with solutions is just much, much harder for me. I ... catch up. It's hard for me to tell if this is what challenge is supposed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm.  11:30 — I slowly get up while cursing at the world. This term ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... tea for lunch, and then I take a caffeine pill because a large black tea

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  this summer, and I was in Cambridge. So I signed up for Alternative ... sketchbook for daily use. I didn't end up using it much, but here's a water ... courses are open for sign-ups soon!

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for ... ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  Stata Center. I definitely need to up the contrast a bit for the next ... So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... up, their high school, and the people they met there influenced them and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  up until 3am almost every night for the past week, studying for tests. In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010