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  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  of this? Because within a few months, those little blogs, buried at the ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter ... ’s a supreme amount, with all kinds of help existing at every door. The ... , at least one of them is giving out free laundry bags. It’s an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive ... think "Finding heritage at MIT" is one of my best-written entries. ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  students at MIT?" The bulk of the reading is done by the professional full ... Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... and cook at least 7 meals outside of that. If your parents are worried ... variety of diets. They all offer cheaper options and discounts for first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  before). There are plenty of events for parents at CPW, and lots of them do ... see, very concretely, the huge range of opportunities that are on offer ... all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  this year -- a number of suicides at "famous" schools made the news; thousands of other suicides at colleges went mostly unmentioned.) These deaths ... Victor Schwartz and Jerald Kay The recent suicides of college students at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you to everyone! I got this!” Person looks around at all of us, and ... minutes of poking my pencil at a paper, I hurried out of the exam hall and ... teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  for different parts of the world, at least for the beginning of the ... MIT’s newest foreign language offered: Korean) I’ve covered most of ... . The sounds of humans are rare. Perhaps because it was my last day at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... of the instructor. I worked with Beth Coleman at WMBR for over a year

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to declaring your major at the end of the year. My impression is that joining a ... departments and programs at MIT (though not all of them are available as majors

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  really, really important part of your undergraduate education -- at MIT or ... interrelatedness of these challenges and work at their intersection: the ... of what we have at stake in common. As some of you may have read, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... it comes to quick food at minimal investment and effort to yourself, I still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  assigned to the Tuesday/Thursday 2-5 section of junior lab. I showed up at 4 ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  at the exam. We were tasked with memorizing a small handful of ... while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Anyway, I had an awesome time at the party, which was actually kind of ... a link to the full subject listing offered at this year's Splash!, but ... of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  been a streaking blur of energy and spontaneity: starting classes at the ... the crazy shenanigans I listed at the beginning of this post - from ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... things actually are. Because chances are, you're looking at them under the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  vague idea of how it worked. For one, yes, you can still eat at them even ... ’s has the advantage of being open 24/7, which definitely comes handy at 4 ... month at MIT, you’ll probably get sick of cycling through the same 6 or so

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016