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  Speaking of mu…

  

  over to the previously mentioned Diesel Cafe, where I read three ... I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... over again, without evaluating it differently. i find that whenever i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... from scratch to see where you are now in contrast, in particular what you ... to pursue some great experiences and grow as students/people may have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  have a conversation in real life.  All you have to do is follow these few ... means waking up early to trudge to 9:00am exams next week (less like a ... final was to compete in a Top Gun shooting competition. ...I didn't win

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... was a huge boost to my speaking skills. Hearing the words spoken often ... in German has helped me to speak German more freely. As a tutor and

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... sane, please take a few moments to locate your nearest exit. In some ... ready to exit the aircraft, a moving vehicle on your uber app will guide

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where ... like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... serving. I haven't been yet, but I'm going to save a trip there for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  encouraged him to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT, Pedersen decided to start his career ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae ... better etiquette. There's a lot to learn, and there are a number of tricks ... , do you want a fail proof way to know which bread and drink are yours

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  .) On top of that, moving to a big city for college ended up giving me the ... . Sometimes I think my path to MIT wasn't a very normal one, but I've realized ... 't a "normal path" to MIT. I dreamt of becoming an entomologist and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  links to tide you over: First, The Human Factor is a video that MIT has ... Board Conference with a gazillion other admissions professionals. Things are pretty busy by day, but at night we've been heading to this sports

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... , finding their niche, doing wonderful things - sometimes we even start to ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  designing and delivering a custom Class Ring to every class since 1930. (I ... changed to include a number of events related to the Brass Rat, such as a ... for years to come, and can be a great conversation starter when talking

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must ... The Tech, went on a field trip to MassWeb, the newspaper's publisher ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of ... dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  many paths to try. But you won’t know where one is going to lead until you give yourself the opportunity to change your mind, and be led in a ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical ... weeks of IAP was to take as many shifts as I could while a lot of people ... ’ve been spending a lot of time in the bunk room this IAP, trying my best to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015