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  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  student and this is National Engineering Week, there was a sneak preview of ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there been a program like Design Squad - a new reality design competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• 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 / Uncategorized

  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
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process ... and designing print spreads is so much easier on a 27” high ... 85t earbuds is impressive for a set of Bluetooth buds, they’re much

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and ... ’t sound like a big deal? Oh, it is. Many distance runners around the nation ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  . It's a time to show how much and how effectively you've prepared and ... Cornwell "I've never studied this much //21" by Jusuf "How to Make a ... Monday, so time is money, which leads to... create a study plan I start off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  that my body is really not designed to carry a 20 lb bag of charcoal. By ... . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... security craziness and what would inevitably be a very emotionally difficult

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  . ------------------------------------- Scott wrote, "I was wondering how much each part of the application is ... system is 11th. (I'm applying from Russia) I have a question on how to fill ... in?" This is a bug in our online application, all is good, don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... area is a confusion of research journals, lecture printouts, and the Cell ... seasons can be in New England. This is nothing short of a Monet, and it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  much harder problem. At a very high level, BeaverCube is difficult to ... ’m claiming this spring as a “research semester.” This is mostly an aspirational ... the TA a lot, and I hope I keep liking them.  I think econ is

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  be able to get a UROP?” Thankfully, there is already an excellent guide ... time around: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_get_a ... a research institution. That means not only is the sheer number of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014