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• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Burton-Conner, if you keep leaving your suite messy ... seven favorite words in the English language. In order, they are: 1 ... live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... situation anyone in our family encounters. 1. Get psyched. 2. Stay with it. 3 ... people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... around her neck - lost herself in books. Her mother was rarely home and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9 ... lived in Burton-Conner (home of many current bloggers), and one who lived in Baker... nobody from my home, though. Today I was home and doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  scientific development. Other countries are becoming equally competititive in ... student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... , is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  , metapuzzles, and some data about teams involved in the hunt. One of my absolute ... of the most annoying (and therefore most rewarding) puzzles in the hunt ... most fun: Denial. Keep in mind that this is just a sampling. I slept a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe ... own applications. Once upon a time and long ago... ...in mid ... early decision or early action to a lot of really awesome schools. So in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at ... deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been working as Burton-Conner's summer desk captain. Unlike being a deskworker in ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  back tomorrow and read about homemade gnocchi in butter-thyme sauce and ... Campus Police headquarters, in front of which we saw this group of four adults in black belts. So, parents, you don't need to worry anymore about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... International House of Pancakes kind of sucks, in theory... it's relatively far ... life being a few BU students in various stages of inebriation. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... Police, who brought in a bunch of flags (USA, Massachusetts, MIT) and

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge ... experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... dress up in evening clothes and have a three course meal). In general

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... money each student needs in financial aid to attend MIT. We will meet ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics ... seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... . MIT took me in, ragged at the edges, with sharp spots and pieces that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified, with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... when you enter the 'blue wing' in the museum[/caption] Right as we went

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022