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  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... shot clinic was one of the coolest things I’ve seen since I got here, and ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things ... ’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of ... no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October 2016 through a partnership with the MIT - Italy program of Dr. Serenella ... of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... situations this theme of realizing that a past self had been naïvely idealistic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... best medium (or one of the best) for translating that lesson plan into a

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... are nearly one-third of our undergraduate female population at MIT now

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... famed statistician Nate Silver is one of them. Nate Silver needs no introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... .05 (Quantum II) so that's kind of exciting. 17 minutes ago, Professor Moore was ... shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of ... happen to masses of people next year, too. I'm sick of airlines who tell

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an ... yourself to the many loaves of bread at desk." I was excited - free bread

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  much been a whirlwind of activity. For once I have absolutely no problem ... of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  way through a project like this. Those of you that know basic electronics will find parts of it boring, and those of you that don't will find parts of it inaccessible. You should read this anyway, because it's just a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... done with the parts that involve getting all the videos off of the video

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written ... the problems, quickly growing frustrated at the fact that none of it makes even a bit of sense, and throwing out various swear words every two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  of music when we've run out of nervous banter and can't think of ... WHAT NOW WHAT NOW?!", all that. Of course, we both ran around panicking ... of social skills ("...um, yeah! That's right! We never really learned

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2 resident Jeremy, a native of Hull, Massachusetts, was all "Hey, my dad owns a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... everyone an equal footing, regardless of prior education. It will also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to attend for four years? Location, atmosphere? What kind of student body am I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005