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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  perspectives (OHMYGOSH how am I gonna represent myself well in 30 seconds and ... (notably the housing website) I’ll summarize the experience briefly. After ... rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... no photography is allowed either. But, I can understand why photography ... ;t even mention two other floors in the museum!) but I would rather

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  in point: At 1 AM one night in November freshman year, I was studying ... problem sets were hard... and I'd never learned to manage my time wisely in ... place. I skipped class a lot more frequently than I did in my upperclass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... catch changes in the populations behavior. And I wanted to see how easy a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... succinct, complimentary and distressing e-mail I've gotten in a while from my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study in a place like this. I'd be too distracted gawking around at the ...  campaign my friends and I did a few months ago and Jordyn was extremely impressed at how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  having spent time with some of the top performers, I can confirm that the ... , securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first ... --the median score is frequently 0; in 2015, it was 2 points out of a possible

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a ... 't go on sale until tomorrow. How disappointing. Then we got lost in the woods, I found a bloody knapsack with some of Gabe's teeth in it, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  -Athena computer -- Sadly, I must admit that I never learned how to print from my PC ... ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... puddles when I just stomp right through them." In other important news, get

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  curse word I can think of becomes a filler word in Spanish. I'm not even ... . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by ... if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  figured I should let you know how things went. Let's talk about some of the ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot ... Point in a couple of days (this one) and I plan on trying to clean my room

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn ... while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  registration, which can be a big pain. Notes for those driving in I've been ... curricula in Course VI (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); I know ... so close to Fenway that you can hear the PA system. I had a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  the restaurant at night"--how exciting! I mean, if you happen to live in ... -Japanese fusion cuisine behind an unassuming concrete facade. Since I was dressed in ... American freedom can't be contained in any physical representation. So great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  how to be human again, but in the meantime, I will try my best.   ... slots for when I can do fun things, like that nice slot from 2pm to 5pm on ... commitments to figure out if there's anything I can do to better spend my time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  upstairs. In some ways this is exactly what I predicted a startup would be; in other ways, it’s better.  I’ve been just over a week in this city ... . Now it’s half-full with the work-appropriate clothes I couldn’t fit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  every person in the class was like "PFFFF! Can I take German I again? That ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... German I in Germany program offered by MISTI!! Do you have any friends who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my ... in MacGregor, and I can see "GO C's" projected on the Prudential Tower ... tonight. I'm heading to a skate shop this weekend so I can learn how to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022