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  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about, I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have lived here. 2) The proximity. All of my classes are just across Mass. Ave

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... effects of not being stereotypically feminine, which in most cases was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... -to stress-relief jam is usually Shake It Off, and after several hums of “I ... better already. It’s largely the lyrics, but it’s also the vehicle of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  . And if you are like me, this makes you sad, because you were one of ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1: An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling ... few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant ... of giant cards). Today while my code is running I am continuing to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... exciting, one of my biggest accomplishments during my time here has been my ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... alum from the class of '82, and she had a lot of really great input on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... with tomato, coffee, yoghurt and granola, a cup of all kinds of fresh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  and let them roll through my mind. All of my dreams have come true. Have ... that will appear or disappear because of what MIT tells you on Thursday. Regardless of your admissions decision, you will continue to be the good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  , listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz ... seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... year I had applied to be a counselor, but I landed the job of AD. My boss

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... MA quite long enough :) I've had my share of driving mishaps, but ... ; however, in the cold of winter, or the near-flash floods of September, some

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... my UROP advisor, Linda Griffith, with a variety of projects pertaining to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007