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  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  I think I bounced about 4 hours outside. While bouncing we decided to ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  ’s important to pick the people that you hang around with wisely ( I have now ... vital planning and important reflection to improve, but I find myself ... I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  social life. I love having important work to do and I love that I'm finally ... connections are really important to me and I'm bummed and taken aback that I ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  introduced me to [annotation note="aka the blockbuster hip-hop musical about an ... chosen to listen to (i.e. not the radio), and like other middle schoolers ... , I was never good enough at singing to actually do musical theater in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  deciding to go to sleep so we could be in lab within 3 hours to finish the ... tedious but easy task- it took me several hours to finish all of the updates ... , after all. We only stayed out for an hour or two, came back to the dorm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem myself to you applicants and prefroshers and even preapplicants out there, I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her Blackberry to check my decision, but just as the pivotal moment arrived, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... conversation is refreshing" because he quickly got to asking bread-and-butter questions, to which it takes longer than 10 seconds to process and formulate

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  back to the hackathon last night, we stayed up for hours, building the ... few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his ... location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof ... Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to represent the university; schools are ranked according to the sum of the ranks

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  great!  If you ignore the average 1.5 hour each way commute I have to ... wasn't until 12 hours before it was due that I started writing and it was only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  into a dreamless sleep, and eight hours later, woke up to catch my flight ... career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  ’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still ... digital age that I can't take an architecture class without having to install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  ’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for ... , getfit@mit encourages MIT to exercise regularly, dangling a grand prize and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  'm ready to sleep for the next 12 hours. Except I have 14.05 lecture again at ... Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT ... College Confidential forums. Now, don't go to these, but there are whole

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016