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  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  as students from different parts of the world who settled in the city ... choice. He did not disappoint. The first member of his family to attend college, Rindone starts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  the middle of February. You'd think it would be hard to combine a ... one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... to all the hype I have heard from every other person on the face of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one ... second opinion from my friends… To my horror, none of them saw the glaring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... buildings seemed to be the embodiment of innovation, the students I saw ... don’t exist). But in all seriousness out of all of the colleges I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... forget it again in the fall haze of week after week of classes. I love MIT, but during most of the semester, it’s a fight to floss my teeth every

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal ... in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... realize that the only thing I ate that day was a cup of vanilla greek yogurt

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... been released into the wilds of the internet...) 3. First Years are ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding ... .com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA&t=455s livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... side, that workload that was just the right pace? it's far ahead of you ... says it's an annoying part of the healing process. i just think my hands

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I ... ? But she continues, and clarifies that she expects the rest of her ... could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So ... relative importance of the essay, there's no exact answer, but in my opinion, we care *a lot.* MIT doesn't assign each component of the application a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... - this was following approximately 3 hours of sleep the night before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... more. Mind you, the HASS-D lottery only involves a small portion of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... .0001: Introduction to Python Six triple O fun Is brainwashing you to join The cult of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that ... Occupy protesters. And that's the story of how procrastination doesn't get your work done - at all. But it does bring up points of interest. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here. The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... making a website. By the end of week 1, we formed teams and submitted ideas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... regretted my choice when I found out that another one of my friends, the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of ... recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005