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  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  caged in becomes the reason for our counterattack". THAT is how you get ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... dodge drunks in urine-filled street corners and go to sleep when the ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it ... ended up going to school in the same city, and that has markedly changed ... ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions ... find yourself in (not just "am I smart enough to be in it"). Allow me to ... you did in high school. Yes, MIT is harder than high school, but getting

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision letters on Friday, March 11, 2005 by regular mail. We know how nerve-wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  ! You should also look into how you will get from the airport to MIT. MIT ... in the US so you don’t have to immediately worry about getting it ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  how we managed to fit three people in my single room. they stayed for a ... the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  pasta shape -- we just used whatever was in our pantry. And to add some ... in another way, so there are too many variables to tell what caused our ... , so we boiled them to get them to the texture from the video. But our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  how i managed to slide in"]seniors[/annotation]. i'm starting to gestate ... to already, or how many i'm going to frantically apply to in the week ... 't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  .   (You'd be surprised how many people want to lick our airplane. It ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... this weekend to keep y'all posted about how awesome our airplane is. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  another place to me. I was getting so caught up in psetting, going to ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... from actually loving it enough to achieve mastery. Playing the violin in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... Ohio Alumni Club get-togethers. Over spring break, I get to met the ... nice to live in a more relaxed East Campus in the previous months. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically ... pretty much ask anybody how to get to the Student Center (which is where ... ! Anonymous asked, "Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  . Also, how did you manage to get your experimental procedures done within ... in a few ways. First, I've been known to come in before class to get ... to getting a debit or credit card in college when we have TechCash? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  when it is in fact only mid-range cheap.  I get to my room. I’m allergic ... ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room ... ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about ... getting in and not getting in, but you'd rather look your best throughout

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005