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• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  have to tell the truth. Your room doesn't look like a 'I could be an ... college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll* Obviously a college dorm room is not ideal to demonstrate interior design

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... ; work last IAP, I tried to UROP but applied for a random one that I didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just ... been to eat healthier food that costs less money, with a weekly exception ... our cheat day to Saturday and had clam chowder (which is apparently a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the ... to one of my (actually Jewish) friends as a novelty item. So then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... bought a dinosaur sleeper for a girl. And why not? Girls are allowed to ... blood glucose after a carb meal -- high blood sugar is supposed to make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to ... . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... Kerberos realm. I went to sleep, and when I woke up, I spent a couple of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story ... a bit of a different spin, bringing in guest speakers every class to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... .  False lashes The lashes were a pain to apply. The picture above was the ... pull my braid down, but that hiccup added a few minutes to installing

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  impacts of a changing climate * How to model and analyze complex climate and ... everyone else at MIT who wants to be able to grow old in a liveable world —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  announced intentions to ship a cellular-enabled iPad and Apple Pencil to every ... least once a day, so I was intrigued by the data plan, to say the least ... , I'm not one to turn down free stuff. So, it was a no-brainer -- I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the ... to still set up a meeting, perhaps by each agreeing to drive a distance ... frustrating. When you contact your EC give them a little time to get back to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we ... curriculum. I went to a math and science Magnet program, so I came into MIT ... learning to use a planner, cooking, cleaning, paying your bills, and even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  have opinions, in the area I decide to research. In A Guide for the Young ... , whenever I write a paper and put it out to the world. I will be judged ... will not stop"]set a calendar event for August 5th[/annotation] to remove

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the ... want to put myself through such a difficult class so early in my academic career, particularly when I had no ambition to be a physics major? "Well

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  better and a dozen cheap thrills. I want to be tired when I go to bed ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with ... Technology. I mean, a place that allows me to take reasonably good pictures 1

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let ... floor to our room. Built as a double-loft, this imposing structure ... 't feel the need to close the door when you napped and could always find a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  share a common Website to compare a variety of materials and exchange ... a mutual fund manager decide what to invest in? What factors determine ... Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006