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  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  easier to simply channel yourself through what you do. It's a guiding ... Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... author of Hitchhiker's Guide, spoke at MIT while I was still a student in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  computer buying guide with links to purchase the computers shown at ... Questions 1. Anonymous asked, Did you go to Senior Ball? I think ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  every pset, and cried in more office hours than I like to think about. And ... the future (and more importantly, pc to Amber Lu for taking this amazing ... wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  had our own personal expert to guide us through the leitmotifs ... [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn ... class here at MIT, because I have always wanted to travel to a Spanish speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  41,207 minutes listening to audiobooks in 2023. That’s 686 hours, or 28 ... ! Honorable mention goes to “Iron Flame,” which was 28+ hours of pure brain ... , which isn’t at all a surprise to me. I spent 191 hours , which is 11

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up   ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you + Valentine's Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  important part of your application, since you have the chance to open up about ... . Yes, the essay is important, but it's hard to make your writing more ... applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  hours a week, like after school and things like that. I have to take my ... 's realizing what's important and what has to be done in order to succeed. I mean ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  mortifying ordeal. Being able to guide a group through a meeting or a rehearsal ... went through just three hours of rehearsal in the afternoon, from 4 PM to ... I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  , a session/tour combo will last 2 to 2.5 hours. Check each school's web ... Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  hours teaching me how to use the HASS or TIG weld or do FEA. Legendary ... "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and ... insincere not to say this is somewhat true. I think what is meant by most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  gives you a few silent hours to have personal help and you find a group of ... 's important to have as much time DOING problems as possible. HKN Tutoring Now ... was absolutely wonderful. Being able to sit for an hour a week with a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  are on the 4th page and the last page to verify that everything is "true ... I've been feeling guilty with these questions piling up so close to ... Virginia) to answer some questions. Props to my old buddy John (Caltech '08

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ...  police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... 's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  also the “Hitchhiker's Guide to Hackathons,” “Hungry? Games?” and a ... Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... stayed up until midnight yesterday to review the MIT CPW (Campus Preview

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... nice time to talk about MIT's campus organization. My goal is to teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close to 40 hours on 031 we did. This class CONSUMED our lives last semester ... , guided by your supervisor, to learn and pursue what you want to! What my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019