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• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  all-nighters to get my college applications in, and neither should you ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began ... I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By myself. Once, at 11 PM, I called one of my best friends at home in Ohio to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... JSF was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We were exposed to a side of ... ’s safe to say that none of us really knew what we were in for. We were met

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  rest stayed black. I went to get the screen repaired. This took going to ... about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... chatted with another customer while waiting for him to get back.   

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  .5 years of getting my ass handed to me academically in undergrad. Maybe that ... portfolio enough by the end of this year to get a research job in industry ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation ... and in other arenas. I'm looking ahead to next summer to maybe get an ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :)

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  purchase meal tickets and how to get to Lobby 10, and shuffling through ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10 ... questions to let everyone else in the class know how smart they are. They

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... to learn and practice these things at MIT. Now, in this post we want to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  know how to write HTML, more or less, but I didn't feel like it.) FYI ... -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a ... 'm doing the IB course with HL Math, Chem ang Bio. Say if I get admitted to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  power to decide whether you will stay in them or not. This does not necessarily apply to McCormick, I'm not sure exactly how that works. 3) Your current roommate is also temporary, although you will get a chance to keep

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I do well in high school to get into a good college. I do well in college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... when they present. Most importantly though, they know how to have fun

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  learn about how some stylistic choice in films (choosing what dialogue to ... experience in class with people you’d never otherwise meet. Getting to see the ... stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  starts getting cold you will probably see a noticeable change in my ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to ... probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... to, especially when only two others in my close friend group are moving to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... . Watch the videos on how to unpack, wear and re-pack Tim, and guidelines on how to keep cool inside the suit. 3. Complete a quiz to show you know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... not to take the test, you do not need to notify us. In other, happier ... disaster or disruption. We always strive to evaluate applicants fairly in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person, and how that will fit in with the company. (It's actually pretty similar

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned ... -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019