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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The same thing will happen with Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or pretty much any other science fiction or fantasy movie or series of movies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don ... Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson ... are mostly low, with a few are flashing in a miasma of neon, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  think it’s possible, to varying degrees of effectiveness depending on what ... good crash course into what kinds of topics I usually think about anyway) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible origin. “dead

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... .002 (What was I trying to do, taking 39 CS units of virtual class?) and added

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a ... the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  mechanical engineering degree programs, 2A in particular has a set of ... completion of a degree. But imagine going through college without a single ... , two change of majors forms, and many advisor meetings initiated by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word: cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015