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• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  closer to the all important yet elusive conviction that I'm doing right by ... . Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  that you've asked in the comments... Thanks, in part, to the transition to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... , I apologize! You've asked many questions, I'll do my best to answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  "Buddy Holly" to Weezer. Yesterday I met three people who did not know who ... education, I discovered on Wikipedia that TV guide rated her iconic hat toss ... themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  their best student tour guide to show him around. "We weren't four steps ... by the building. The students began to harass the tour guide from their ... , grabbed the student guide, and tossed her into the trunk. A fifth young man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not ... undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six ... We’re going to start our tour at Alpha Phi, which has been my own

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  importantly, you can, too! I’m telling you this story to show you two things: 1 ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... . We're now ready to play a short psychological game. A private ... imaginary answer. Ex: “7 times 7 is 49, drop the 9, carry the 4 to the next

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  're here to visit, and log their name in the visitor guide. I have to admit ... -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  I have to think about the real world.  Things like where to live, what to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste ... how to articularte it.  I've spent countless hours after work sitting

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  that this guide helps you decide where to buy groceries at MIT. Have any ... intimidating, so I have put together a complete guide of all groceries near MIT ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to residences. One major component of this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... involved. We upperclassmen forget sometimes that it's not crystal-clear to ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  semester, where all too often, fun longer than half an hour has to be either ... visit, there hadn't been anyone in the exhibit to guide us. This time ... take a few hours to see just a tiny slice of them, and remember that more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  along MIT professors and experts to guide our experience.  We can take ... relieved) to see the tiramasu, because I was fading but still had a 3-hour ... boarded the bus back to MIT. I spent the three-ish hours LaTeXing 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  all the way down from Laredo (about 3 hours away) to attend. I got to ... When we last left off, I had narrowly dodged Hurricane Ike to fly down to the Rio Grande Valley. The saga continues... McAllen, Texas

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  more of a reflection than a guide because there's no definitive guide to ... MIT is meant to correspond to 12 hours of work per week."]50 hours per ... around 11 hours per week on it, while I spent closer to 13 hours because I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  half an hour of sleep before work. Welcome to Guild Camp 2008&mdash ... '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... yet. Then it was 6:30. It had just begun to dawn on us that we were

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  there's no way to verify this claim by looking at data; like in the ... awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note='their spelling']labour[/annotation] economics”, and jointly to Angrist and Imbens

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  working, this video will be to be the most important piece of art around ... long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... to be an admissions blogger read, Once, years ago, there was a Great

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008