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  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... , there are no wrong choices - only good choices, and better ones. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular ... write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... requirement was, in fact, one of the top reasons I didn't comMIT till late April

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  said primary source, I can tell you that no, MIT doesn't have the highest ... unmotivated. Ridiculous generalizations in both cases. I'll tell you this - I ... : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  acquaintance with the equations as they arise in scientific applications. [I ... Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles, discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting ... be more of a title than anything else, and I can definitely relate to this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week ... . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In ... cheat sheets is no walk in the park. They can take hours, predominantly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i ... ! i hope i can too someday! but i didn't get the part about kevin. i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... we can send in additional information like EA deferees?" You may ... touch. MIT Hopeful wrote, "I believe in an earlier post Mr. McGann had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  Wednesday already?!" I know, I know, it's all I can keep thinking about too ... , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... Abdul hits in the background. It was just then that I realized that ... you a Paula Abdul song if my life depended on it. I hang my head in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  much better. (In fact, I liked the idea so much that I ordered a custom ... -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... , I thought that was the coolest thing that you could do with 3D

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  people, I’ve “defroshed”. I’m starting to see cracks in the system I can ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... in mind.   doing more stuff Everyone I’ve met at MIT has an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  you a bathroom primer. Now, I only live in one dorm, so I can't speak ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of ... -apartments. The suite I'm sitting in right now houses 8 people, the largest suite on

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  friends again, I can't help but reconsider anime's presence in my life. It ... ="a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports ... damn hilarious. like, who am I??? Even in the months leading up to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... on its stand (in the yellow box), the half-soldered PCB I was working ... can be used as an oscilloscope and waveform generator (in the pink box

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by ... over cronuts on the bus. I still believe deeply in the work that we do ... those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an ... school newspapers) for letting me sit in their special press section so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005