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  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  struggled with the racial climate of my school or family pressures. When my ... officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us ... , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  . Instead of just barrelling ahead blindly on the momentum of high school ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself. This is what got me going: Taking "advantage" of pass/no-record. "No

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet ... way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student ... you know. By “you”, I especially mean “employees and proprietors of the ... consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... open to the public (I think you actually need business credentials or ... a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  ’d be a perfect fit for MIT and lots of other build-y culture nerd schools ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post ... attends LG Technical School (as in, LG the Korean mobile phone company) in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  example (in case one is admitted at all) to have pointed School of Engineering in one's application and decide to go to School of Management ... each program has to offer." This is correct. Approximately 50% of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  the semester continued, classes got busy, and of course I got a little ... of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  year of high school where I’ll be single (probably. I highly doubt I ... (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of ... kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any ... applications from people who have no business applying to MIT to liven up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  's Habitat for Humanity group Like Elyse, Christi is busy busy; one of her ... (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... this is a picture of you, but I'm not sure.) Some of my suitemates

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  I never ended up sticking with them. Outside of School -many ... note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  foreign schools"][/annotation] started today— much to the dismay of my ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025