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  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  ? How about this...whoever gives me the best costume suggestion gets to ... celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened to be my birthday), and what do you know? My train broke down! I spent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT ... have a conversation in real life.  All you have to do is follow these few ... fairly accurate graph, if it referred to dogs) just look at how adorable

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that Course 1 allows me the opportunity to participate in a program such as this and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... actually a very good case for an entry with the title "How to do everything ... you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 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 / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... sentence. But it's actually true. And in the long run...I wouldn't want it to ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  the day, companies also gave talks about how to user their software in ... getting to be too much to try to figure out in one sitting. Cue 4 am ... project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer questions about how people live and what matters to them: through asking

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  important and life-changing. Some people even get engaged in college - how ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... difficult to understand why the health sector is more in demand today than say

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin. He has been trying in vain to beat his record of 41 seconds. Clearly ... light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  school are getting married. It's a weird thing to be a female scientist in ... 'll get to some answers next time I check in. EDIT: I stuck a really super ... like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  Newsweek "How to Get Into College" magazine is now on shelves, and features ... 're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts ... beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  less productive; the joy in just getting to spend time with friends, even ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  particularly endear us to her. She wrote down suggestions for how to get to our ... in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack ... so, we went to the lobby to check out and get a cab to the airport. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  love to be in. The summer provides opportunities to learn how to navigate ... read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade ... to spend countless hours in lab is also an extremely important factor ... So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane ... in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can enter ... securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and screennames to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  sacrifice your true passions to get that A in French, but at what cost? Let ... - I think it's always good to check in with a school between getting ... in the world. An anonymous poster asked how to email me - it's benjones

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004