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• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  credited. In fact, it's a rather well-known phrase here: MIT is like drinking ... from a fire hose. Perhaps to some it may seem menacing--what is life ... I want to? WHAT IS LIFE WATER ANYWAY? Brace yourself. A short

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  contexts - give them all a chance. Thank you This post is as much about ... this is or will be true for you, too: you only have so much energy ... . Being on crutches and slowing down the group is a horrible feeling, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  . My favorite meal is a Pennsylvania Dutch classic: chicken and waffles ... pictures but I'll steal some later from Allison's xanga. Stealing is wrong ... to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of ... /GRE word!) I guess, strictly speaking, I don't have as much of a right to ... Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  to call out BS, animated by an earnest belief that there is a truth out ... him of TDS that I realized how profoundly my sense of what's is funny ... . There is, however, a "Jon, and me." Because even though I haven't often

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And ... amount of work, because 031 is a struggle bus if there ever was one. Plus ... -becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for-the-past-month-is-a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  has been a blur). Our job is to basically coordinate all of the events ... . The East Campus courtyard is a great place to come hang out and chill ... spontaneity. planning how long I’d spend at food events was a big ol’ waste of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  that is my superhero origin story. Anyway, I had a really, really ... ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... to do, and as a result I realized that there is no way in Hell that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  is MIT’s autonomous robotics team! Self-driving robots are becoming a ... ] Amber: So Arcturus is a pretty new club, yeah? Tell us about its formation ... Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  reading and for being a great audience. This isn't to say that this is ... , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... helpful for you this year, no matter how things turn out for you. I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  is the Siemens Research Competition. MIT is a University Partner for Siemens, which means that we 'host' a (virtual) regional event and provide ... wanted to share a PSA! Sorry I haven't blogged much over the last few weeks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... just too much of a standard to live up to. I had a friend of my ... considered a close friend pretty much said that my admission didn't count

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything! Really taught me how to actually make most anything. Expect to spend a lot ... , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  yesterday or the day after tomorrow? Is born even appropriate?” How will a ... understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... MIT is likely to face, come 2113? 6)Over a 1000 freshmen will be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  subconscious. CPW, while certainly not farfetched, is a heavily time ... , let me leave you with a general observation: MIT is home to some ... those people together on the same campus is the perfect recipe for a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... grow so much during these months at home. I’d have a job, I’d make lots ... himself, and is still figuring out how to be not only Superman, but also

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a ... you get used to how awesome Firefox is, you can never go back to IE ... didn't think was possible. Plus it has AcidSearch, which is a more easily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  that every MIT degree is made equal, whether that means a 5.0 GPA or a 3 ... it is. I found myself scrambling to take extra STEM classes or force a ... talk with her, to which she gave me a pep talk about how I need to stop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  how they think I’ve changed over the last year and a half. I think I ... was a much better look. 9. I hung out with my younger sister! My sister is a student at Northeastern University in Boston. When I moved to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . Another perk is that MIT students have free admission! The first exhibit I ... saw a bull fight there and it actually made me nauseous, to the point ... that one of the bulls rebelled and broke the neck of a matador, but that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006