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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully ... (except for “How do I get into MIT?” I still don’t know what to say to that ... Camp Kesem. As I wrote in a previous entry, Camp Kesem is a free summer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... opportunity came on March 7. At 4 AM (yes, that is A.M.)– 2 busses pulled up at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... faux punk rock creamery. In fact, I was in such a hurry that I missed the ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , unable to pick out Iraq on a map. As I'm leaving, I realize that while in ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... classes come psets so...that's a wash. On other hand, I am trading Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  anywhere, but I imagine she is pretty busy, especially now that reading ... in the admissions cycle, so stay tuned. Mona said: Hi. Thi[s] i[s] not ... scraping the bottom is 4.2 x 10 ^ -4242. That is truly, truly horrendous. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct ... ! [Class groans.] Come on, what else is there to do in bed?" 9.04, Neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  my mouth as I listened. In my son”s case, I already knew that a ... I see every day passing me in a rush down the infinite corridor during the daytime hours of my job in the admissions office. How important is a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... reasons why I enjoy ROTC so much is that there are so many opportunities ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and ... going to pick up a new hobby. I haven't started that goal, and I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... , see, and do! So, if you're coming to CPW this weekend, this is my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  from the same school? 2)Is it true that if I apply to MIT as a major in an area, which is not that competitive as compare to engineering, do I ... /send in extra material, how will I know that it was received? Any way for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  sophomore year to realize that I'm a woman in STEM. When I realized this ... MITMo last year and I love this post so definitely give that a read. This ... number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  about a test that I ended up not being in the right state of mind (let ... I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal with MIT. I was stressed, I was upset, and I made a completely rational

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on ... - so I wanted to be on a functional adult 9-5 schedule. Seattle is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a quote into an outline of a shape. That is probably the worst explanation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  in school? That last question came from a student at a high school that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... this summer is living a fangirl's dream. I'm working with a TMG ... favorite authors Raymond Carver. I'm proud to say that I read a total of not

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

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  the speech, and thought how perfect it would be if I threw in a “Bon ... in front of a crowd. To my surprise, I received a fair amount of ... . They recommended that I make it more of a personal story rather than a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  me gain confidence is that in the process of making my tool, I ... network in a colab notebook! Exploring the West! In the days that I was ... coincidence, and I still do not know how it just fixed itself (but I’m in no way

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  doing a lot, in that my schedule was always full, and there was always ... , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022