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  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  mini classes where you built a rocket? Think of GEL as those two things ... students who have gone through the program and industry professionals who are ... permanently working with for the semester, and it made me even more excited to

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  thought. Eventually I made the decision to focus on academics because I knew ... certain of my path and purpose. 2. Apply early. There are only benefits to ... experience I’ve had where 40 students and counselors went from being strangers

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help ... . This week was one such high stress week where we were fabricating ... ours had little variance in it's shots, which made for impressive

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students ... , started traditions, and made plans for life in W1. September 2010: Just ... YOU call Fariborz Maseeh Hall for short?   (P.P.S. Here are some

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  from MIT's TfA recruitment director after I made it to the final ... don't know where I'll be living. I don't know what I'll be doing. I hate ... their lives and are already doing it, as opposed to sitting around in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  -shaped holiday card, with a message about how MIT students are all unique, just ... ) in my organic chemistry class the other day, which made me chuckle ... to think it was on purpose. :) So in case anyone was wondering where an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  ! ;) Libraries are cool and all, and I may blog about one ore two later, but today ... made so much sense! MIT and Harvard work together for their bookstore ... where you go to school. It makes one wonder . . . But enough of that, on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  , these Course 2 (MechE) majors made a spot for me and my disdainful poetry homework (How are “broken walls and burning towers” in line x ... they actually got to where I was standing.

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  place like MIT where many of the things that happen are fairly spontaneous ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  initial are "Keri L," rather than the correct "Keri-Lee A." Well, that ... street to the Kendall/MIT T station around 1:45 and easily made it to Logan ... . After forty-five minutes of waiting, I finally reached a counter where a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  they are priced competitively with Star Market, a more traditional ... presentation on Charles Ives' Concord Sonata, during which I made Pulitzer Prize ... like the part where you slam on the piano with the 14.75-inch plank of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  allowing students on the parts of campus where they're filming then now is ... who isn't camera ready when they are sick, I could never risk going out ... .A. I definitely made people go out of their way to take my to their house

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But ... my subconscious subscribes to"]hobbies[/annotation] are DEFINITELY NOT ... could find at Michaels or Joann’s. I made friendship bracelets, string art

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  [/annotation] held a Craft Market where student artists could sell a variety of ... . These were the first things I'd ever made. [caption id="attachment_85725 ... about crocheting. People are more than willing to help others out, whether

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  esoteric diagrams, numbers, and concepts than I can keep track. Exams are ... through to this point of the semester made this night all the more special ... choice. Though, there have been many nights this semester where I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  backpack. Made worse by the fact that I dropped five pounds from that bag ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I ... , good for you. But the odds are very good that it won't work out as well

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  flattering, sure - though depending on who you are, that Sheldon Cooper ... an optimization problem, where you as an applicant maximize your ... applications process, is just one red-hot pressure cooker made worse by one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  show "Sorority Life"? Read the book "Pledged." Think sorority girls are ... 's hair? These stereotypes are like, completely, like, totally, unfounded ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  where Ring Delivery was going to be held: April 19, 2020 at the Boston ... arrange for our rings to be delivered to us. I'm grateful this was made ... waiting until the plans for the fall semester are solidified” before making

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  where you end and this place begins. Sometimes it's so quiet here, or ... swear 1000 bugs couldn't have made it itch so bad. A few nights it rained ... measurements, which even then I saw as symbolic but still made you feel like a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008