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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  colleges, but culture is really a tangible thing that you can compare. So ... Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... different from Harvard where even if you are a student, you are often met with

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  !). As did I. Communication is key! As you can tell, this isn’t a single ... -orientation programs you can choose as a prefrosh to get to campus early for activities ... deadline, I encourage you to spend a lot of introspective time. This doesn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... reminder of death. this is the mirage of novelty, and it has a simple ... memory results in a confused recollection of the entire group. this is why

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  MonsterTrak, which is a version of Monster where companies will post their ... 'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone ... 'm starting early so I can have time to make my decision and figure out a number

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  walking around alone. Turns out, art is a lot harder-hitting when you ... . and New York have such distinguished vibes. This is a tragedy. Having ... dumb guy? Can I write a blog post about serious art while making a stupid

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I ... . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow ... blunt then Americans. Whereas an American might tell you in a business

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  can't wait to meet you guys come CPW and next year if you decide to ... my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you ... their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  , the regular group, and the losers.” Hrm, you can pick which one is which ... distressed jeans are really trendy now. THEN we learned how there is a huge ... be the index of the person that you end up kissing. a) What is the CDF

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  or not, you can actually learn a thing or two by asking it what’s up ... : Housing is actually going okay! You have a group you love, you have a few ... at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  deadline is later, I can't imagine it would be a problem. You should have ... , totally up to you. There is no admissions advantage to applying in one ... has had me in junior or senior year. Is this true, or can I submit a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  pitches a bit too rehearsed, and you're never certain if an event is casual ... out that you can make a homemade fog machine by boiling Glycerin (found ... from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  are about 8 others) and a Resident Associate Advisor (RAA), who is an upperclassman that helps run the seminar and is a resource if you ever have ... , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  , now. to the point where you can't even see where it went. catching up ... . copley square is beautiful on a sunny day with clouds. i watched some boys ... tired, mostly there aren't too many psets there aren't too many

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  extracurricular activity to which most can devote time – unless, that is, you ... a detailed overview of these projects). To give you some of the ... can’t help but wonder if she’s gotten a hold of one of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  change in our lives—a haircut, a new tattoo, a broken bone—there rarely is ... the changes on the day to day basis. There just comes a time when you ... stars you can catch just outside of New York City. There’s the dead

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  way to burn out, and is probably a sign that you have been poorly ... project, a month at least. Maybe this is something you were lucky enough to ... while you are in the middle of writing a lab report. It is a bad idea

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  : DON’T DO IT it is dangerous… You can’t see anything interesting at all ... there is a deeper link between these two coincidences. Or maybe there isn ... . ‘25 was our backup-turned-main driver. Oris S. N. ‘23 is a massive

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  function as a second email address for you; this list name can be longer than ... ://www.mit.edu/~yourusername. A username can also get you an MIT certificate, giving you access to ... take care to pick a user name that won't embarrass you. This is also a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is ... them. What you should steep yourself in is the ignorance, in what we don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  . If there was ever a time where I needed mental space, it was then ... " is how they style it to make it look like flower petals. You can also ... This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020