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• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  pretty sure that I'd love doing the work, no matter how much there was (I ... "peasant" analogy... people would talk about how "elegant" a math proof was ... ...). But when people get here, everyone pretty much leaves a lot of that at

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  how a person is doing. “How are you” is asked quickly and instinctively ... respond with a simple “good.” Nothing more and nothing less. But so much ... a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  Manufacturing I. In this class everybody is issued a box of materials, taught some ... As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  the best parts about being a member of SaveTFP is just seeing the number ... was at 9:00 p.m. on a Wednesday. We went for it. I have pretty much the ... intimidating chocolate cake, a box of truffles, and a bowl of berries and whipped

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  feel like I learned a lot about how to live this summer. I am so much ... —but to me, art is still the escape. Of course, writing in particular is a ... of a good, classic Chinese poem is this truly incredible, magical

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah ... ) CPW is this week, so if you’re a prefrosh you’re likely going to be ... ) Dining. There is a constant stream of food from the Howard Dining Hall

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  when I got here. How much of that is MIT related and how much of that is ... , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to ... telling you about my experiences. One of the things that gets me most is how

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  Francisco Bay is really pretty. o____o 2. Asian food is so much better here ... . MUNI is a really cute name for a mass-transit system. 8. I want a car. 9 ... adobe is like natural air-conditioning) is fairly small, though it has a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... life when you do.** All this is of course a lot easier said than done

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  can run 43 miles per hour, which is much faster than I can pedal my bike ... Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction ... better and ready to apply to MIT now? BananAPPEAL quandries: 1) Is MIT a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  mindset (a somewhat redundant name, I know), alternatively, is how I’ve come ... ] recitation because building 1 is a long, bendy walk to building 36 with no ... merch chair on my floor (arguably, B1 is a commitment in and of itself

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... year left at this esteemed institution that is now just as much my home

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  After a seven-ish month renovation, the new Varsity Weight Room is now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at MIT, the new VWR is now double the size, has double the number of racks

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  February 15th, whichever is earlier. A few notes: You should complete the ... -explanatory, but here are a few notes: The Midyear Report is an online form that is ... section. The Midyear Updates form will be a simple text box, similar to one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  of a developing country. This photo is from a hill overlooking downtown ... China is more legitimately a developing country. Shenzhen, which is itself ... a little slip telling you where it is, and then you find the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• 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…

  

  definitely hit a GCS of 3 once or twice in these last few days.) Here is how ... Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime ... handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a

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

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... a place a great place, MIT checks off a lot of those boxes. With that ... , normally there is a threshold of requirements that students have to get

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  well from a surprisingly small pot with very little attention. Here is a ... ' living room. It's not a big apartment; it's probably too much banana plant ... , technically, is a tropical fruiting plant, even though it's mostly grown for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... talented Audrey C. '24[/caption]   Though this is primarily a sad post, I don’t want to end on such a negative note. The truth is that the end

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021