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  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  . It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue ... according to one of the workers at OSG, that means I tried really, really hard ... for employee morale here at admissions. I can sort of see what he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  remember the thrill of going to my first-ever Red Sox game at Fenway. I ... , I've managed to make plenty of mistakes - but at the same time, each ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  worried about) sort of had ideas of studying chemistry at first, but then ... on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was ... around and looked at plants all day, read a lot of books. basically I loved

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into ... less “great unknown” to distract me than at the start of the year. The ... I’ve been reminded of how much I love home. But at least I’m headed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  , which made some of the not water-proof supplies fall out of the box. At ... stuff as possible to get at least something out of my first career fair. I ... ), but some notable things I remember at desk: just handfuls of coleslaw

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  Sin Meters. Finally, at each stage, the teams received a certificate of ... at the "Mephistophelean Institute of Turpitude." We were given a ... -up of Duck Poker: Another puzzle you may enoy looking at is this dance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  two record weeks of fall 2020.']at a level I had scarcely seen while at ... of four classes. It was fewer units than I'd taken at any point during ... 'm getting better at being a person, in all the little corners of myself, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  orders of magnitude. You're like an exa, and I'm at a centi." What's more ... English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... , and I was surprised at the amount of respect the exhibits paid to the ... July 16. I'm wondering who among you will be outside of a bookstore at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe-inspiring times of my life. That's no exaggeration -- my four days at MIT changed my ... blogger Sam, and at the awesome Battle of the Bands event on the last night

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... . I leave Boston at 8 AM Eastern. I arrive at SFO, run into several of my fellow recruits (most of us have interviewed at other programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... 've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in Berlin, teaching at a Deutsche Bahn summer school program. It was just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat-n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at ... ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... . Yum, candy corn. I miss Halloween.) Then I take a seat at one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  of MIT’s campus this fall. Currently, I’m living at my home in NYC, and ... hopefully my 2019 blog post is true. At the moment, I might only know some of ... September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking ... lectures feeling a lot better about the difficulty of classes at MIT - they ... one with you - with full knowledge of the fact that I'll probably never

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011