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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for MyMIT? What are you waiting for?). Even if you don't receive an ... ). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , I struggle and search for the answer, using up all of the time ... behind. I know that I am not the only one. It is important to be up for ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  … wait for it….DARY [/annotation] in my family. Every year, without fail, I brace myself for the number of times I plan to hear it on Thanksgiving day ... ’m thankful for the opportunity to be home in Michigan for Thanksgiving. I

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  the living room being a place for my “experiments.” I grew up gluing ... foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  . Life goal for next semester: bump this average up to 8 hours. Empirical ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... delivery please come and pick it up! Also if you're expecting a package and ... : “Guys it's for real nearing Shaq height.” As the latest beneficiary of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics final."]PNR,[/annotation] so why not? The essay was for 21H.130, History ... aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  underneath) to make up for the fact that I again failed to wake up early to go ... really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... process for new data centers. Some days flew by packed, and others dragged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  . And for the gift of many beautiful moments that opened up afterward ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... disbelief. He’s about going to bed right now, and I’m typing up this blog post

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  desperately hoped for an on-campus spring, so I still signed up for many sports ... signed up for Sport Taekwondo. I am not sure where/when I signed up, mainly ... fill up in [annotation note="signed up for a class in 20-30 seconds, it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  applying for summer research positions, finishing up classes, and winding ... was gearing up for another summer of research and I was still playing ... just pick up and leave for a foreign country for months on end without

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  with us put us up for a few days, so I headed back to campus about a year ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... before the big concert; naturally, the entire afternoon was blocked out for ... ) and her husband in person for the first time. Our cast of performers was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  . General Advice for Grocery Shopping Bring an empty backpack. You should ... step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad ... groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... as the Teaching Assistant (“TA,” in MIT-ese) for the 1:00-3:00 section

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... 's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up ... [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  up pretty chipper people (see Matt’s post). For those of you who were ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing ... ) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  well up as I began gasping for air, one hand barely holding the rest of ... , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I ... bubble up during Finals Week. By “antics,” I mean something as innocuous as ... a California area code. Further sleuthing, by which I mean picking up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008