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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  , in all its lottery ticket buying, election voting, and sweepstakes ... (General Institute Requirements) and while there isn't much leeway in what classes are ... affect over the student body. Taught in a peculiar fashion, TEAL is the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  short day which included transfecting some rat hippocampal neurons in ... ate my soup and sandwich outside in Kendall Square while reading a book ... in the City" on my iPod. There is basically nothing better than walking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  sports teams, and a whopping 25% of students will participate in one during ... Collegiate Athletic Association, which is the organization in the United States in charge of college athletics

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  what he says . . .twice. Woo-hoo! Here we go, we're in 26-100 and Ben is ... speech. He's now giving a brief history lesson of MIT. In 1861 MIT was ... 1865. It wasn't in Cambridge at first, it started right across the river

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... , froshlings. You. You'll all be here in two weeks. Your friends at other ... yet and you're sitting around wondering what in the world a Math

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  question that is asked. Below, and in my other Questions Omnibus posts, I try ... : once in the late '80's and early '90's, and returned to doing it just ... response in a few days, that does not necessarily mean the EC is ignoring you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... angsty thoughts about life/the universe/everything posts) and reuse them in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike occasionally but the last full mountain I climbed was in 4th grade, when it was ... will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and ... Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... Writing Autobiography"] 21W.022.[/annotation] In fact, I loved this class ... , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... in mind that all libraries are good boys, and therefore these ratings ... dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  chase them. She made her website (in my digital literacy class) all about ... a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... brother, Max, in Brookgreen Gardens last Thanksgiving break. The pet rock ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but ... I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and ... spreadsheet. It is my equivalent of decorating a bullet journal or buying fancy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so many times that there are, like, 4 different drafts of it sitting in Word ... 's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... young? haha - tangent: i still get id'ed every time when i buy tylenol at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was ... ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... in the summer. baker isn’t east campus, but it’s more than i feel like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020