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  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... in the above diagram, where you get sent to line up in front of one of ... community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to ... for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  that stuff, but it means he doesn't really have to worry about getting in ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... picking Harvard for grad school effectively meant he'd have to get into MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  , artistic, or anything else. However, we refer to the money given directly by ... , please visit the Student Financial Services website.
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... yet reached Cambridge, the below photos come from recent trips to New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of Indie Games celebrates the games you quite often find in the Humble Bundle

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  ! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to ... chance. Wouldn't want them to get jealous or anything! So tomorrow, while ... get institute holidays and have to still get our problem sets done), I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  's written so well—the idea is to let the readers fill in the feelings of the ... ? I got to see it ~20 days before it came out in theatres, thanks to the ... Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  face stuck on my screen. 10) But time to post this entry and get back to ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... killing time in London until my flight back to Boston. Text for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of ... odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  somewhere that's not boston. i want to get out of boston. living in LA ... not as a programmer drivers in LA don't know how to use their blinkers ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  you want to get into and how long the waitlist is). Also, once you get ... honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really ... , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  What is the particle in a box model? How to make ice cream at home ... parasites which could live in your eye Commensalism and you How to avoid being ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013