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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... remembered and shared stories and hugged as the lanterns drifted away. Without ... , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  and free food. It's all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met some of you, and we Bloggers also met each other--most of our interaction

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  I've been so busy.   It's 3:23 am and this is my free time ... . Haha I literally just finished and published a post a few minutes ago ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the ... -paced Internet #Journalism…between trying to pitch and write articles as quickly as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  , during CPW,  all the events were about "legos" and "foam swords" and other ... the few prefrosh to go to the more official and "mature" events. I was ... hectic and squeezed into four days. During orientation and rush week, I got

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  BANG!, pull the trigger all the way back and keep sight on target even ... keeping your arm steady, if you're like me and have almost no muscles above ... instructor) tells his classes that shooting is 90% mental and 10% technical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen and jot everything down. I just had one of these marathon brain

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  senior and therefore finals-free) cooked me dinner so that I could study and not stress out about, you know, feeding myself. A month ago, I got home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... , I still overuse semicolons, and I still browse Wikipedia far too often

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED and you should be too ... away at problem sets or studying. For a much better (and more musical ... stamp out this precious part of MIT culture once and for all. They sing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  After the chaos and confusion that was associated with MIT FPOPs (Freshman Preorientation Programs), orientation, and sorority recruitment, I ... a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... they not like and what do they absolutely love about it? Wouldn't it be ... infinite and ask if they have a few minutes to talk about this without, well

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... the right hand side. (She and I had pulled an all-nighter the night ... encounter AND have solid time-management skills. It's all about what's most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly ... into a routine at MIT. Psets due every week on Tuesday and Thursday ... lying if I told you MIT was easy. Academically and organizationally, MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  four different outfits before deciding which combination of shorts and ... print out past exams for my next three organic chemistry and genetics ... dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other ... admission (thus, RA applicants -- including international students -- and EA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran ... ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... playground every day, and convinced them that if we kept digging, we would find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  's Creative Director (whose name begins with “L,” I believe, and ends with “ady ... images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid ... someone had stolen my pillow and replaced it with a laptop. Except the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission ... two themes that I noticed: free food and discouragement of sleeping ... amazing, and CPW was the first time that I pulled a non-academic, non

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... hot topic among applying students. I think back and I realize that I've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009