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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... : dyed hair is a stereotype of my dorm, East Campus (among other dorms ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  fastest guy when a bear is chasing you, but only faster than whoever's in ... blessing part first: Even back in my old high school - a public school - some ... , how do you know what shape you're in come your application season? More

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  the year: pika is no different. In the fall we have a major Work Week ... been discussed in much detail. Sondy's post changes that, though. Read ... remarks that, Epsilon Theta is a small and close-knit co-ed fraternity. We

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... learn that there is a life-sized plastic cow in the Stata center. The tour ... MIT is like. *In a safe, police-approved way. The plastic cow, for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  --which is where I wrap my hair in a T-shirt and just let the T-shirt absorb ... take a break from braids. Braiding is also really expensive in the ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Mellon is a popular choice for CS, and that Case Western (in my home state ... more serious note, how is the food in the dining halls/how accesible is ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events ... , enjoyed a free steak and lobster dinner (yes, the free food around here isn't limited to pizza), spent a night in the New England Aquarium, and finished

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... end of IAP, each team gives a presentation in front of a panel of judges

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  really hasn't ramped up too too much yet which is my fault) Admissions ... curse my fall self for feeling as if she had too much free time and wanted ... , but I'm feeling things a bit too much all at once and I wish I could

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  chiang described (though it is in a much more mild manner, thankfully) 5 ... trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... future, and what i need now is a more reliable way to ground myself in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... Students?" This is a question I answered in this post. The answer was: "We ... decisions from colleges, but I don't think a few months is too much to ask for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  , good luck, and feel free to email me at the address in the banner. Have a ... New year's eve here in Karachi. Assault rifle fire is really loud. I ... electricity is flowing and the guns are shooting, I'll be awake in the basement

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... commemorate the magazine's release with an event much bigger than a casual ... large event at MIT is hard. Besides the actual event planning, there's a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  involving free food of some sort. And if you attend ten, you are entered in a raffle to get a free 32GB ipod touch. Yeah. I know. Wow. If that's not an ... , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  -dump-way-too-comprehensive-distinctly-personal version of a “How to put on a thousand-person hackathon in six months” guide ... that is enough. She also taught me that in fact you can actually run a ... feel incredibly lucky that HackMIT is structured in a way that we can

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT ... -Conner students! What that means is that licensed massage therapists come in and provide free 8-10 minute massages for Burton-Conner students who sign up in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... - with MIT-EMS. MIT-EMS (Emergency Medical Service) is a student ... in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  the content. It looks like it is written in a different language, which ... because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many MIT students, that change is continuous, like paint gliding across a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround ... ." the original press release is here. it says: “We see a vital need to act ... success by so simple a metric as whether or not you graduated in four years

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... classes in 2003 (3.091, 21A.109, 18.01A, 8.01 and a seminar). I don't know

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009