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• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In ... they're meant to be doing. There are certain mistakes in the approach to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  learn how to face them. And you have to have fun in life. The fun is what ... a wooden pull toy. I am learning how to be a leader through dorm ... Donald’s takeout in hand at 3am. I love when people I recognize wave to me in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  form by May 1 (postmark date) if you intend to enroll at MIT. How much is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send the deposit? No deposit is required. Just be sure to send in the form

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you ... . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to ... /rock genre and now writes and records a few songs each month. In addition to ... usually gets a sneak preview before Joey posts his songs to Youtube for the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... outside in the rain to visit one of Starbucks’s 6 reserve roasters in the ... my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... . I also know more things about myself now, like how I like my bed to be

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Villain Swivel Chair – In case you use your degree from MIT to become an ... How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... current 4 million tons per year to 7 million tons of goods in 2015. Some ... they fear that bringing in bigger boats to Berlin and Brandenburg would

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they ... , there seems to be more interest in the program this year than ever before ... new students and upperclassmen. To be considered in the EA round, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  to slow the breakdown of pectin in the potatoes is pretty cool). As ... The weather sobered up just in time for CPW, and we celebrated the ... procrastinated long enough to contribute mint-lime-honey-rolled strawberries and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I ... Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say ... appears to be broken, which makes me sad, especially since I had cute

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... once the second semester started. In order to compensate for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  .2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed: In ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9 ... throughout the greater Zürich area. I got really lucky to be placed in one just

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  posted in response to my last entry about raising siblings to be friends. It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years ... experiences in this profession have given me a ton of stuff to think about

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the ... to take me in on very short notice. Eventually, I did make it back to ... happy to live in it." Wilczek's last quote is particularly appropriate to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  about nothing but MIT for a while. Hang in there and feel free to weigh in ... the next few days with some photos and such. Try to get some rest ... 'd better get out of there once I had my picture so they could go home and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005