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  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He ... small town where I had an hour layover. I started walking to a café but ... in.  A woman asked me the typical questions — where are you from, how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  us? Not much, I'm off to bed. But Marilee has a new post for you ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... one of your comments, and I can't answer every question right now, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  as early as you can! But since I was in such a time crunch, I printed ... give your brain a nice break from problem solving or quizzing yourself. I ... also good at doing the same thing for a wider range of topics. I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  never seen a movie involving time travel that I did not like. I can ... have no excuses! (I've also realized that there is a Spongebob gif for ... to be terrible but I saw We Bought A Zoo so how much lower can Matt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... . (Direct quote from a friend last year - "I had a dream that I got into ... A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I

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

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  were doing it. I’m a grown adult. I can decide when a comprehensive snack ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... which 20 happened this past weekend. Usually I take a night bus and sleep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... doing it. This was me. I wasn’t sleeping properly for about a month ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  have a club where experienced people lead trips and gear can be rented ... fingers hurt if I took them out of my hand covers for more than a few ... a hard time saying through words can be said through my Big Rock

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... of us. Wait until you apply for jobs... then you don't even receive a ... a bit annoying - can't corporations spare the two minutes to write a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  say, the last week before I start working for the month of August with a ... for me, this means that I have a ton of data analysis to do. Basically ... depends on where you live. In MacGregor, it's fairly rare for a student to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  food. i found a cookie recipe over the weekend that's really working for ... working on a new arrangement for my a cappella group. i just finished a book ... dish (i use this one because it comes with a nice lid) and pour the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can ... I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  signed up for it. Apparently it was not. I have not turned in a single pset ... the class. … I reached a point one night where I felt so defeated. I ... for graduating, and I don’t even necessarily need 6.101 for course 2A6

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  class are working with the Rickshaw Bank, a project of the Center for ... and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... disks is a two-man job Photo: Jessica Ong From Sydney's Entry: "Indian

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  what do I do? I work on a brand new satellite mission planned for launch in 2009 (2010?). I can't tell you too much more without upsetting my ... does not have a license for Matlab! I have to use Octave! That's why my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather ... for BeaverCube, a student-built magnetically actuated satellite. I also

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  did they go from a person I said hi to in the halls to someone I will ... minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  can see it when I close my eyes: a city of twisted metal rising up from ... be MIT. It might not be. But I can assure you: you’ll learn a lot from ... document. Essentially, I can see myself from the past writing, deleting, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously ... help build lofts for me and Chris. I happen to have a ridiculously

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005