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  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller ... to succeed and focused on getting the entire MIT community involved. At ... to San Francisco during spring break. It was my first time on the West

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Learn offers courses based on the idea of learning through conversations. Over 3 ... on a single comment. The Open University also supports Citizen ... : online + on-campus, online + matriculated + distance learning, and online

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah ... leave for class 3 minutes before it starts has been a game-changer. 3 ... . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  Last year, I sat here on this weekend after thanksgiving feeling ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... than I did now that I can look back on and think about the different ways

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  vs Cambridge for IB Computer Scientists (it varies heavily based on ... supervision is largely dependent on the supervisor. And thus we get to the point ... have a story of how given 20 more minutes they would've given a solution

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM - I wake up. Come on, there was a party ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  class, while sitting on a chair in the kitchen; I cried for a few minutes ... still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into ... organization on Harvard's campus. The shelter is in the basement of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  dying Peel a strawberry Bake a grape Surgery on a grape Cleanse your email ... Attack on Alison - alison"]Attack on Titan[/annotation] Do some data analysis on your screen time reports and then if it’s as tragically high as

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the ... . So even on days when I’m stuck at home, going to office hours after ... bad to just slow down for a while, to focus more on taking in the world

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... working on my own terms. Also, being able to watch Avatar: The Last

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  -cinnamon mousse. That night, I put on a dress and makeup and did my hair, slipped my feet into high heels, put on a backpack, walked down one flight of stairs, took off my backpack, and worked on a Junior Lab paper for three hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. Within 10 minutes of seeing him on stage, it became clear that, even for all the reverence he ... people on stage couldn't help but laugh and smile. Neither could I - or a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  currently failing miserably). p.s. I've been spending way too much time on ... -minute walk to the train station to catch the 6:30 train to Pennbrook, the ... on the train and hope that I wake up to my 7:20 alarm. 7:30 AM

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  Media Projects in Haiti. The class was conceived fairly last minute after ... D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... certainly cannot substitute for the real experience of being on MIT's campus ... asked if I could wait for them, so I kept watch on our tour as it quickly

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the ... bar you can put your feet up on. We grabbed our five seats and settled ... no lights on? About thirty seconds later I noticed that the top half of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  fall semester, however, the parties on our floor have been increasing in ... silence :-) Plan: Buy a radio transmitter (range ~ 30 ft) and put it on ... worth the look on Roe's face when he walks in to a room full of 20 people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  twenty-minute drive from my house. The only thing I scored this semester ... that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on ... class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I ... pipe flow. This is what writing a 21-page proposal on drag reduction in ... school I set toast ON FIRE. It was beautiful--our toaster oven had broken

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

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... driving back to my hotel, listening to the game on the radio, and they kept ... presentations on MIT each year. And, for the most part, I'm generally discussing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004