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  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... . Unfortunately, I can't pull the blankets back over my head and go back to sleep ... got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  up quite a bit. I really wish I'd been single for my freshman fall. my ... total on MIT campus; even so, I can't even fathom dating a freshman. first ... relationship and can focus on what makes me happy instead. I finally feel like a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  activities for the parents other than a reception and some financial aid ... where we tell you how much we love you, followed by some of the best a ... /or spouse away from MIT with the promise that she/he can return in the fall

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... one class per year that I really, really, really look forward to. A

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  January 1. They can arrive and be processed well after this date and you ... -14 days for the processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted directly to your MyMIT account from Naviance or the ApplyWithUs site

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the performance tomorrow, but for now, I leave you with probably one of the most interesting things I've seen done with butter in a very long time. Yes

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  from a college application. When I wrote essays for undergraduate ... . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy

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

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  , I just found out that Biodiesel@MIT, a student group started by Joe ... won a $25,000 grant from MTVU and GE. Seriously! $25,000! Won by ... MIT. So I got this e-mail this morning from my 10.491: Integrated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... variability depending upon who is responding So instead of giving a number, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It ... , a significant number come from parents whose children are years away ... , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I ... can decide to spontaneously bake delicious bread or watch a movie or

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... twisty metal thing. My indecision didn’t fade as I got older. A turning ... piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  class (if I recall correctly), and learned a lesson or two from it. Now ... experience for me; it brought out a quality in me that I hadn't had to call on ... 've been making a robot!. As the hyperlink implies, I've been participating

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  nervous standing five feet from them. Then I gave them five dollars for not ... in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  For the record, during my CPW, it rained for a little and despite that, I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most ... to school with for four years. I also had a lot of questions about MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  try out for an a capella group. I looked forward to living in East ... Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  [] and a little art? If the hints aren't helping, I guess I can give you ... the Busycle. Here are just a few pictures I was able to snap at the ... Borden Milk Cow? I don't know where I learned that.

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  i had a magical long weekend. a fellow rising sophomore friend, her boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod ... . our journey started at a Starbucks drive-through, where someone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below ... I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  . There are a few unusual things I can share about my experience at MIT, though. For one, I have a UROP (a research job) that’s in a field totally ... to keep a journal through the class, so I started a blog for it. The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010