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  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  cool. When we were trying to cram all of our food into the various ... Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of pictures of CPW, so here they are: Mason '10 (yes, that Mason, from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  of them might have been an 11th grade instructor, and fit into that ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the TechCrunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  should post some pictures of this place later...) and just ran into Jodie ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  human being who has dreamt of being an admissions blogger since August ... deadline of 4 weeks and an MIT undergrad in the midst of classes, clubs ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  appeal of biting into apples, I thought to myself, after indulging in my ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... unpack and set up our beds. We got a tour of the cabin, and then three of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  wedges of cheese, with a small hole cut into each near the top center ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  rest of the album, think about the work that went into making it. Of the ... hours and hours of rehearsal, packed into the crazy four weeks of MIT ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  wanted to poke my head into Alicia's office (she's the director of MIT ... , in my case) and ran into another one of my 2.009 teammates in Lobby 7 ... . About my Reg Day. The thing about Reg Day, is that you run into every

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into neither of these categories, I put off of grading 5.112 problem sets (which ... jigging of my own. Things were pretty crazy around here last night

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had only completed about 5 of the applications by mid-December (under the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman outside Baker House, one of the dorms on Dorm Row. I don't know why there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  chances of getting into MIT?? and if so, then by how much?" I'm sure your ... applicant wrote, "i think that i will not get into mit this year becozz of my ... . even if u watch translated into english ones, i would recommend u try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  accelerator, where tiny bits of matter smash into each other at terrifying ... from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  preregister for a bunch of them and hope you get into one), so I wound up in ... preparation for all of the meets crammed into January and February. This ... , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  family and friends. Savoring a succession of sun salutes or folding into ... never condense her into one story. So I won’t. Here, I also have my parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  . The women's track team had a baking night where we made one of our ... that's just an effect from the hardened frosting!By the end of IAP, I ... an hour of free time between the end of a long run and a rehearsal

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  Admissions, the interview is an important part of the process. The interviews ... like that. It's meant to be more of a conversation, a give and take. What ... of school. Think about why you like to do these activities. What is it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007