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  Questions and answers

  

  to med school. There wasn't any particular reason for this...I had ... bed for them and wants them. Moving to a different hall or entry: A ... Room Assignment Chair (RAC) for their dorm to see if a transfer can be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... . Academics come first for MIT-bound scholar Jeremy McGee began to show signs ... take off and land. It's what I love to do, and it's what I want to do for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  . FYI: It takes a few weeks for us to publish our maker calendar (last ... Splitwise for group transactions. I use Venmo to actually process payments and ... means to a good escape out of the MIT bubble for studying. It's a bit of a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  -difficulty and age appropriate tasks to make the challenge a fun experience for ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  , we found science/engineering fun and easy; thus allowing time for us to ... hard work, so I came prepared to reduce my nonacademic commitments. For ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  ice, and as I left for Switzerland, I used that time away from it all to ... years back, to help arrange ice time for me with her coaching team. I ... students.   III. When I left Europe and headed to Seattle for my summer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... implications for the field. I've even heard it compared to the Human Genome ... caught up on all the sleep I missed during term (for some reason, while I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  , extracurriculars, and preparing for the [annotation note="Oh, how I hate to remember ... , I don’t want to seem like I’m ungrateful for my parents. Speaking from ... [/annotation], drove me to switch into [annotation note="A cook for yourself dorm with no

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  time set aside for journalists to speak individually with Dr. Kornbluth ... 'm really grateful to the MIT News office for giving the admissions blogs the ... morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but ... need is ID showing that I'm over 18 and some money to pay for the ... arrived, I intended to just ask for a simple "jewelry replacement" for the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don ... about to say that.” For starters, there's D-Lab a trilogy of courses

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  , this is likely to be the case for you as well ... - we're not looking for folks to have cured all infectious disease in the ... here. MIT's affinity for hands-on approaches to education. Our latin

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At ... sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... .  Like most stereotypes, this is not wholly accurate.  For example, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  them on again for the holidays! Pay them handsomely to be "on call" at ... ."   Keep your Arrival and Departure monitors up to date, for obvious ... to board planes. For instance: let them update a (probably separate

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... shows for the show choir, I never got around to scheduling an interview ... , then switched to honors for precalculus and calculus. So even though I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  do I drive to? The short answer is "food." I go to Star Market for ... food I go to the Ocean State Job Lot, one of the best stores for $5 ... I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel free to invite their friends and classmates. This year, we cooked for ... should go to them. I am so thankful for them and they are what made it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  post on her blog to let you know about some exciting opportunities for ... hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your ... listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date information and RSVP

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  :40am: I'm about to head to Lobby 7 for the Kickoff... we'll see what this ... least for now -- "How to Succeed at the MIT Mystery Hunt by Being Really ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007