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• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  :') I went to [annotation note="there's a lot to be said here about PR ... .S imperialism here, but I want to emphasize that awareness is important, and I do ... people at a club, and I saw another 20 or so on my 5 AM flight back to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a ... my comfort zone. For teaching me to relax more once in a while, to ... impossible to achieve such a range of activities even in the long life-span we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... showed precocious signs of a furious ambition to eat everything ever ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are ... already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do ... agnostic as to whether a student who has taken the exams should submit their

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v ... -sets expanded to fill the time I gave them: all the time I had. As a result, when ... a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  learning the importance of placing school first and jobs second. But a very ... ;   Finally, after a long, hard day of talking to companies, getting ... It's been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  basics of color opponency To understand this, you will need a color wheel ... overwhelming; it's more important to be sensitive to subtle differences in dark ... heck out. Cool fact (not at all important to understanding this) You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... important peer pressure was, and is, to our development as individuals. We are ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... become a blog-worthy experience. (Seriously, Conner 2 people are going to ... officially missed the last T run of the night and decided to take a taxi back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  to procrastinate on your Regular Decision applications or a distraction ... a rattlesnake. I encourage you to read more about his journey and who ... ). From an outside perspective, Mike Posner seems to be a person who, having

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviewing applicants. It’s a unique and amazing way to stay connected to MIT ... -stress and rewarding as possible, and to that regard, I’ve put together a list ... these suggestions should help to alleviate a bit of nervousness regardless

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  a time?? -Alison"] All right, story time.[/annotation] I was hired to ... to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the ... hatched a plot to create what would be affectionately called, [annotation

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  , and the path that Chavo had to walk in his life as a wrestler. I went ... known to be a “cheater” in the ring, and would try to get Chavo to fight ... SCHOOL. Puts me to shame.  They also have a youtube channel where they

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  in October, and it was important to me for a lot of reasons that I ace ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... people to something like a 60-strong operation - and sure, I'd spent a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  a pedophile the chance to reform himself is more important than ... destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... wherever they were standing to reattach it, only to have it fall off again a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  MIT Tunnels. Back then, it was tunnels with a capital "T" because to my ... deplane and inquired as to whether or not I had a winter coat to go over the ... a few times to avoid snowy weather, mostly because I still have yet to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  't find information on it there. This is a program I'd like to write about ... 's Uncertainity Principle and even have a few ideas relating to the String Theory ... application....is it helpful to send a possible design of a perpetual motion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  fraction of the cinnamon roll calories trekking to campus (it's about a ... ought to be. Maybe not such a bad strategy (it means I take what I'm most ... that's not a lit class." Concentration Advisor: "They don't all have to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013