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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... an entire semester working harder than I had ever thought possible, and ... animals?) while she was here. (Hi, Mollie.) I am not one of these people (as

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  room, not to mention three (count 'em) umbrellas. In case you're curious, and I'm sure you are (not), I brought one from home, and I ended up ... campus while staying dry a pretty simple endeavor. Friday, however, was not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  ensuring that you will not drown if your get knocked into the ocean while ... signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it seemed pretty self-explanatory and I just wanted to work on my form. I know

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  concentration cell. It sounds like a good place to study for an exam. That's not ... and give everybody those 3-d glasses.." "You may want to work it out by another method, but that's not correct..." "Son of an ellyptic paraboloid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  Student/Faculty dinners I blogged earlier? (If not: Our class council will ... . This whole experience totally confirms (yes, "confirms," not "restores ... ’s recent book Mountains Beyond Mountains, which describes the remarkable work

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  work out for you, or it might not. But it IS much easier to take the AP ... is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I ... , for example. Getting a 5 on the AP exam is not the same as passing the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... map have numbers on them. This is not an accident, nor is it just

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  pretty hard but found that the material on the test was not that ... joy of working at the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute ... at night (which is not). The MCAT is curved multiple-choice knowledge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  . I left her house not at all sure if I'd see her application. Lesson ... ! Fast-forward four months. Not only did she apply to the College of ... also acknowledge its weaknesses. Lesson Four: It's not just about the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... life that such a mixture of people works. So, how do I feel like I fit ... international buffet. Now, I'm not sure how I break down percentage-wise, but I

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... the stuff that happened while I was home, except that not much really ... that it would be best not to chance it, even with a concurrent entry by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  . This is not an accusation or an excuse for myself, but merely a curious ... some of my comments could apply to minorities as well, but I'm not a ... be considered at all. Whether or not MIT (or anyone, for that matter

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready ... to my already unmanageable inbox. Now, I also have this not ... summarily delete it. Not so. One hour later, Shyam '07 came up to me in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not ... look at a school not already on my short list. Their advice was helpful ... were right for me. This required a lot of work on my part, but it was

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  thing you have not really seen too many pictures online thus far are ... a challenging intellectual environment, but it's not impossible and ... completely gets the problem, and then there are times you might not get it at

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  ! Isn't this neat? Ask one question, get 4 answers. MITbloggers, working ... 's always nice to not actually have to remember all those trig identities for ... what may or may not actually be a PES diagram onto the test. Writing the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  also worked another four hours of desk last night, the money from which I ... me as a gift. Thanks, Mitra! I'm not entirely sure I like the idea of i ... "bridge loops" covering a wide range of mileage, so it's not too hard to get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... concern I hear a lot from people who are not MIT students is "Oh no, if they ... group and not experience diversity!" I have to say, if you only have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  realized how instrumental Charlie Brown was, not just for me but for ... tours of Harvard, MIT and Yale, fully confident I would not get accepted ... a dinner with friends or working through a tough math pset

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces. Second, the ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner ... EXTINGUISHER" painted on the left was also Helvetica Bold Condensed. But it's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023