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  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  bajillion mailing lists and never bothers to take themselves off of any of ... location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets to have it. Items range from the boring (old clothes, magazines, etc

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  myself, and the people who admitted me to this place. So, the background ... (or 80s, memory fails me...) MIT-Japan was started as an organization to provide support to students who wanted to study or work abroad in Japan

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  dedicating an entry to answering them. Please, if you have questions, feel free to ask! If I can't answer them, I'll tell you so! Drew asked: "Could ... Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  anyone directly saying that women were inferior to men and immediately got a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  , if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there ... declared a major)! So it's not just a meme when people say that if you had to ... ) extremely popular and b) associated with a higher probability to earn above

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... to ensure the secrecy of the design until Premiere, we even resorted to ... , it was finally time to unveil the design to the entire class! The day

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it was negative, which was incredibly rude to the kind person who gave me the thoughtful gift. I say this to show how biased I was against Kaur

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of ... Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  encourage you to watch as many as you can because they show what MIT students are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  you haven’t checked it out yet, lookie here. To achieve this, we ate ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in Hamilton that I can break down and relate to my life, but this one strikes me as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  or 4W, depending on who you ask. Among many things, I am fortunate to ... fortunate to have a somewhat interesting story to tell. Read ahead ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim, I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014