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• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  she felt bad; "you must be busy too! I feel bad for using up your time ... desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you ... of MIT soon, so you might as well pack up your bags and go home now. As

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  So...the past few weeks have been CPW central for me - working on matching up all 1,063 of you coming this weekend with current student hosts ... shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  set up before we release decisions at noon. If you're looking for a way ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... amazing thing for me and calculated whether my job is net joy or net sorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  anywhere, I might end up scrubbing dishes in Düsseldorf for the rest of my ... DID YOU KNOW? The drummers for the bands Queen and Duran Duran are ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  Tower A stock shot of a ballroom, all dolled up Here are the 10 ... design for the event. Notice the casablanca lilies!!1!!cos(0)!! I applaud ... them!! Lost in the drapery Sorry for all these tent photos. They

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6.004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For ... . My TA had suggested that we budget nine hours for it. Ha. Hahaha. She

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• 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 / Uncategorized

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  This semester, I signed up to become an EMT with MIT EMS, our campus EMS service. Every Saturday for the past three months or so, I and eleven other students have Ubered over to the other side of Cambridge for

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the perfect day. A day when I had a blogger meeting or plans to go out for ice ... "Episode" where you guys could make decisions for me throughout the day. But

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• 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