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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  . I'm actually hoping for kind of a combination of the two at this point ... 're skipping all of our classes and making a $15 Chinatown bus trip down to New ... Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it ... , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Tomorrow, we will mail out the first of four batches of letters ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for ... different member of our staff will visit different areas of the country. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  House, analyzing data, at all hours of the day and night. My partner is ... our data to calculate the mean life of muons at rest; basically, after ... a leadership summit in New York (hosted by Google). More about that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... months, those little blogs, buried at the bottom of the page, were getting ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  -Pants Subway Ride is a 7 year tradition in New York City. Hundreds of people meet ... wearing pants" or "I'm just really bad at poker." Usually New York is the ... ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... and it was kind of shocking. "You've come back with that New England ... my closet in the form of my shoes or on a bike rack or at the bus and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  something new about someone I already know. At MIT, most of the activities ... people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world ... My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  read from his new book at Harvard University tonight.” My brain took ... look at one of them— I have no idea what happened next. The world ... burst into tears at once, frightened, certain of impending death

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you ... are a specific example of the general case. At a high level, we are ... candidates. Bloggers are expected to blog at least twice a month. New

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  senior year of high school, saw that every blogger seemed to have at least ... -tech stoves. The instructor kept offering trainings, and to supply new materials ... seen the joy of at any other place.

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... easy, in that order Record for number of grapes held in mouth at one time ... feel like I'm at Disneyland Song used as the opening credits of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1) procrastination 2) I was already feeling stressed with the [annotation note="University

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  reached out for all sorts of reasons—to express concern, offer a monitor ... funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... to have Verizon at MIT). Cingular does seem to offer better rates on ... to be offering this $200 rebate promotion on a wide selection of phones

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005