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• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and explain the configuration. Bear with me, but my Paint skills are not superb

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  more insulting as the thread snowballed. Someone made a secure poll where ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... . Minutes later, every freshman got another email: “Since people are messing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... , what are my chances . . . .) Number one isn't so much of an issue with a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  there's flames in the background! For no reason! Prompt: "Where are you ... "Where are you from?" written on it in pretty lettering. I don't hold any ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  potency of “interestingly” on sentences that are actually interesting, like ... barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  limit, and odds are, you’ll never have the chance to be so free ever again ... learning – the learning that helps you figure out where you’re going, who you are as a person, and what you were put on this earth to do. It’s a fact

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  page from the Book of Mollie-valations, here are some answers to some ... . Are there any other opportunities for relatively cheap voice lessons ... Chicago. There are a bunch of opportunities for voice lessons, and Dr

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  made sure to point out. First semester, I kept hurdling over the passing ... teaches that highs & lows and twists & turns are normal and ... forget Trying to navigate to a free t-shirt after a Dropbox info session

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  kidding. Honestly, some days here are like working all summer to buy a new ... made sure that the “n” actually came after the “a,” I headed down to ... serving free hot chocolate to weary travelers passing by on their path to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  is where they wanted to be, others were less certain. Some may even ... , we are planning to have a platform-independent mobile site that should ... that if you are planning to come to CPW, you have reflected on what you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  will be waived, as they are in other countries where we do not have ... application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of mail to open and process, and we are doing so as quickly as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  funding. Many master’s programs are not free, so sometimes there is a ... ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences ... Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... that are winter-naive (like myself), there’s hope. And for those of you that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours, particularly where I live... I have not known boredom since moving here. There are concrete octagons, steel bars, soda machines that you log into to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  whining at me like "what the heck are you doing, you’ve been working on this ... assignment. In general, I find that professors are understanding of the ... are extremely common, and a majority of the classes I've taken so far

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this break from writing would be the last one I ever made. Maybe I would ... something good to blog about. And there are good things. I just needed sleep ... ’re doing. I like organic chemistry.  We made cobalt complexes in chem lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... “Governing the Commons” made me think about institutions, and “Why Nations Fail” made me think about the nature of them. I ended up reading like 20 books

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  stacks of packages are reaching NBA-player height, so if you've received an ... Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a ... potential products and their corresponding sales. But dorm supplies are fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  senior and therefore finals-free) cooked me dinner so that I could study ... to bake cookies. We made something on the order of 100 cookies, I think ... big monumentous occasion to blog - when really, these little things are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  "Beardvember"). The rule are simple. Don't shave, and try and grow the heartiest ... to break free from your jaw it itches unbelievably bad. Nothing helps ... 've got to break it like a wild stallion made of hair. WEEK THREE After

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010