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  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend shouted that his older brother had something called The Face Book, and that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  , nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I was sick when classes first started, got better, and now I've been sick since Monday. It's now next Monday. I'm getting better, though, and that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  their stated job description. Of all of the other duties I’ve been ... Underwater Robot and Extreme Karaoke to fire spinning and a Python bee. Think of CPW like the Olympic games, just with more math and fewer sports

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  head, explored my weird mushy state of being, and penned those words for ... all the power. And years later when I found myself in the United States ... ’ll be a great time constraint on difficult problems, and an attendant

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... Psets, tests, and the horror of finals season, will be much deserved and ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  institutions.   I did this! You can read my liveblogs of the conference and ... I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I ... 's graduation dinner.     Tomorrow, I'll drive down to South Bay and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... check, classy security, and fancy wine. Plus a much older and wealthier ... “that is valued as a physical object above and beyond its value as a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  reminisce about their times at the Institute and acknowledge its influence on ... infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes mathematics awesome. It means that words like “nested,” “hiding,” and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  listings and the sometimes confusing GIRs (General Institute Requirements ... seemingly endless expanse of liquid lactose and my milk-loving self is ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  is nervousness about how thorough and multi-syllabic the response is ... me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and ... and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  freshmen show up here every fall, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and fresh from a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... person in your class and pick his or her brain about the problem set or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... .   Here are what those numbers on the colored rectangles mean and why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  journal about daily experiences. Much angst about my workplace and college ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan ... between “Sushi and Barbeque,” “A Wok to Remember” (a reference to a popular

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  that transient state, gone from where I've started but not quite where I ... -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into the station and I must interrupt the quiet peace I've found in transit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  and then [annotation note="sorry, jeremy. does this count as citing my ... ="for legal reason i have to say stealing and plagiarism is bad"]blame me though ... out of the college experience, and not every environment is conducive to

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  my fellow Simmons sponge-dwellers, and when the clock strikes a nice and early 5:30 PM (because we actually have the lifestyle habits of ... for this...) and mosey on down to ye olde Simmons dining hall. Okay

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... , this is a physics problem. And when there's an important physics problem ... disposal"), MIT researcher Jocelyn Monroe, and his daughter. My favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  , in a fragile state. Families and communities are torn apart by unlawful ... graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... . The air is heavy with humidity and heads and hearts, this week, are

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 14% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 19% Abroad 10% States represented 49 Countries represented 49 Schooling: Public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006