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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  in the first place (again, people don't usually go to South Boston from ... 21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  without telling it first. I try to keep my computer happy, so I attempted to ... feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... completely irrelevant. (Please pretend that they haven't already.) First off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally ... 't just a leaf.) It was something out there trying to tell me that I need to wake up, buckle down, and work. Which means I need to stop fooling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  year because I got into the first job I applied to. And I missed out on ... post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  (maybe - in order to digress, don't you have to be on topic in the first ... have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there ... while filming. afterwards i realized i enjoyed talking to them and wanted

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ... 's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  have checked the weather app when I first woke up. I didn't have time to ... forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... morning. I went to bed at around 1 am last night (or I guess this morning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  philosophy and a lifelong process. It requires you to first of all find out who ... I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I remember asking my parents to bless my application. I'm pretty sure that I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  to any of my fellow MIT students.  My first week at MIT, my grandfather ... .  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to Costco, made pizzas, dressed like a princess, went to the incredible

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7 ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you're not here yet, hurry up ... you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my ... this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  ’t have prom or if you decided not to go, then you probably aren’t missing much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like ... , you’re dancing awfully close to Jimmy...”) Have no fear, for if you come

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... 's what led me to see life the way I do: The world isn't just something you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  had to put up a fight. I felt when I first got to MIT that I had ... This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being ... , when other people found out that I'd been accepted to MIT, their

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our ... admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for ... following day, she and I will depart for our first trip together as a married ... colleagues in Admissions will be happy to help you. And not 24 hours after I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007