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  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  messed-up and is still ok, what things can be messed-up for now but should ... staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post. If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  the river. I took advantage of my free time over IAP to sign-up for a ... morning and tennis practice from 5-7pm, I usually end up taking the ... with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  .[/annotation] For those who grew up like me, it became the first mode of distinction ... these things up to make way for a summer subletter, and I spent a week ... For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  -of-crowd, at least for this year. A week prior to our planning meet-up, I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course ... velocity of something as it moves for a set amount of time. You went for a ... would be like my time at MIT prepared me for the wrong thing and then when

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  . For dinner Saturday, I met up with some people from summer camp (NJ ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... with Edward, another ‘12 from a town near by mine. We met up at the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  basically I used up all my writing braincells that I usually save for the ... dressed up as a character who dressed up as a gnome for halloween ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -is-becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for ... Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet ... about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  the room was for networking, while the startups had tables lining up the ... to do build up a startup of my own. Thanks to Bobbie Carlton for ... Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on ... Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... , trying to wrap up the current project and then moving onto the next one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  ’re really not kidding. I found myself waking up on May 19 with no plans for ... the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... an entire box of bananas for a buck, and made something like three

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee ... for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our ... think up something wonderful. And it seemed to me that this sentiment was

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... Bring Home pile will eventually end up in one of my big red suitcases (clothes, toiletries, super-secret gift for my parents and sisters) or my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her ... summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  one would notice for weeks; these include things like "big iff [if and ... scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to ... the new year offered.   WINTER Packed up my life in Boston ... teaching at a high school for MISTI Global Teaching Labs, and traveled around

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  , when I came up with a couple of guesses for various items, namely images ... ended up finding about an item a day for a week or so. I also ended up ... unhappy with you for saying that. giving up and giving forward CJ: By the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021