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  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I got to MIT and answer "how I could possibly work here." If we rewind to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  convenient with respect to the current situation we all find ourselves in. if ... seems ancient"]winter break.[/annotation] i'm trying to get better at ... it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pretty well in high school calc or physics, you may want to get the credit ... sunburn of the I-wonder-how-I-managed-to-NOT-get-skin-cancer variety. Well ... big mess while we were in the process of putting things away. We get a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... committee was to get changed and get hyped.  At 6:30pm, doors opened. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  destitution sets in. My first big purchase was a new camera. Amazon had it on ... means blogging and UROP for me, in addition to some more work for ... (which is in Maine). Due to a variety of reasons (none of which, I promise

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  to get involved with some new activities and continue some old ones ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have ... principles. Later in the course, we are going to study nonideal solutions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... explore this new grocery store, so here I am, a week or so later, ready to ... through every single aisle and getting our bearings, we decided to start

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in ... just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details ... about being in a country where nobody has electricity or regular access to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  cover P/NR, the GIRs, MIT's grading system, and how to get into the best ... from, and I even have some tips on how to use them effectively. First ... ="my freshman year in new vs old courseroad" /] CourseRoad is also very popular

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... Admarket's flickrSLiDR) So how did we manage to get so lucky? The answer ... (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... 're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• 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 ... opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit, and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and ... family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  to get in somewhere good. You don't have to be valedictorian, be in the ... really wanted to take. And where, you might ask, did I get in with these ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to ... toughest schools in the U.S., and a reminder to take a second and recognize ... . This Tuesday, the Class of 2019 got together to celebrate the time we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to how UROP works at MIT, and how I found mine. In about two weeks I ... they feeding my nephew out there in New England? It's like he's talking ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... 's website to see if I could afford one.  The math never worked :( In late ... an offer in December and, after realizing that I was about to have $50k

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’t interested in getting involved in anything romantic with anybody at the moment ... , we struggled through a problem set, we sat next to each other in ... haven’t truly been single in years. I became accustomed to all the broad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... this whole process. But that Saturday morning I was there to learn how to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011