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• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  work, I dithered around for a couple of hours, hours I definitely did not ... the last day, I collapsed into bed and slept for a blissful 11 hours ... Friday night I slept for 10 hours and 8 glorious minutes. If you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  contributions for their families). How can a student of extremely limited ... reply from miles away sriram a student from India Sriram, I'm not quite ... person. Christine asked: Hey Jessie, I have a question for you. How was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... route that loops from Reykjavík into central Iceland and back. It hits a ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  from New House 4 and I finally got a meal together not at the Next House ... ) afterwards, stopping for some Insomnia cookies. I explored a vegan spot in ... attached to these items: I got the hexagonal lights as a gift from my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  's artistic and culinary adventures at leftunattended.com. Looking for a little ... project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs), where there's a DIY ... /baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  for the past few months, from 7 to 10 pm, I've thought about that ... for Q&A.  It was tons of fun.  I tried to do my best Macklemore ... There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... .Information from the UAAP.Information about housing and the housing lottery.A to-do list for the summer.For international students, information from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  (but I'm sure there are people who'd argue..). You can stay undecided for ... I know I haven't written anything lately. Portraying MIT feels a bit ... just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... hybridization, love I have a gift for spatial work; who knew? I hope that you ... 't think that 18.03 deserves a love sonnet right now, I opted for a limerick

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  , I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but ... that I never thought I'd experience. I'm docking half a point for all the ... , especially since I might not see them again for a long time. This game was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true ... Activities Midway alone, where I got information about everything from the ... ourselves into a wing, they took us out for dinner, from pizza to Greek food

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  in. Rushil, as for a mentor, I can't help you there; I might recommend ... for Early Action because the post office is messed up currently. I can ... . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... EMTs. Writing a short story for my HASS class was entirely entertaining and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  a dining hall when I can go to my floor kitchen - or, better yet, when ... bean and garlic sauce. It is amazing. It will last me a week, because I ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... from Day One I next talked to a representative of a small programming ... representative I talked to was from a huge company with more than 100,000 employees

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  deferred. Usually, when I take a call from a deferred applicant, there ... decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application ... talk about the process. Can I call admissions to find out The Reason why

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  . I dropped a ball. I wrote up a text, panicked about it for 10 minutes ... much, but it's a start. I've capped myself at where I am. No more time ... 'm getting to a point where I'm content with the amount of effort I'm doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  are ways I can make a tangible and very consequential difference for the ... note=" or at least can be a quick read. I think I read this at a slower ... book and annotate it because there is so much I can learn to grow as a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  scrutinized from a distance. For example, last fall, I was struggling to ... elitist and shallow, but also I grinded for top grades and a high SAT score ... and time if I hadn't wanted to attend a great university. For example

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  ’t have real school for a month. I kid you not, though; I basically did ... (from West Campus, where we all live, that's a 10-15 minute walk). But ... the MIT crowd. Anyways, I can write a whole entry on french toast in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010