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  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This ... ’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to ... vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

   midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants, and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I felt about my MIT application, and here's the post I wrote for decision

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  comics, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. From there it leads into the ... nice split of comics from the big two and independent distributors. Next ... (and the occassional Wii game) that I've always loved, from A Knight

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous and emotional selection process, hired, from among 62 applicants (including Snively), four freshman bloggers and two seniors (not including

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we ... : every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are excited ... decision, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... or puzzles), and very quick and witty. The only people in suits were ... material! And now I'm back on campus settling in and trying to feng shui

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things that you have accumulated over the past four years and may have forgotten

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The ... for 10-12 weeks, hanging out with astronomers and scientists and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our ... this year to take advantage of their always warm weather, and most ... running and lunges, with the occasional game of Gaelic football or ultimate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... as “squash and stretch” and “secondary motion” in the 30’s. Such ... to design robots. TOFU, who is named after the squashing and stretching

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... /26/mit.oil.robot/ And a few days ago, this article from Gizmag about work ... / Some pretty cool research and development being done - it's stuff like

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  and Science grad student who works on Grassroots Mapping, and Oliver Yeh ... bags, a commercial point-and-shoot camera, and some helium. Each rig costs less than $100, and will help monitor the oil spill's impact at a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  ! (where it's probably sunny now? - and yes, gummy chocos are pretty awesome, and your isef shirt is too :P) What's better, a Gummy Choco tube or a MIT tube? (The choice is obvious) And we have Lindsay S., from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  , and planning the Closing Remarks and Variety Show. After all the "day-before" craziness today, I thought I'd take a little break to relax and write a ... the Closing Remarks and Variety Show Saturday night. Details: Saturday

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  .735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS requirement, and my second writing class at MIT. 4.440: Basic Structural Design. Forces! Trusses! Flying Buttresses! For undergraduate and graduate students

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been ... have to step-up to the plate and complete it! For the skeptics (and photo ... been to a Bruins game, but two of my best friends, Anna '08 and Maria '08

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006