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  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  resolution links (for the most part) as those are pretty unpleasant to look at ... University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... mom to the biology labs for too long. I think this was Trumbull

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  to continue their D-Lab projects for longer than three semesters - such ... trouble for the group, until finally they were presenting the charcoal to ... When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... for an additional six to eight minutes if you like your eggs not fully

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders to give jobs to. I've spent the past two IAPs doing internships for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : Philadelphia, PA High school: Philadelphia High School for Girls College: MIT ... character: Garfield Advice about applying to college/MIT: Let your personality ... motivations. Fun fact about yourself: I flew a jet (alongside a pilot) for about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... interviewee is trying to figure out if the school is right for them. I have had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your ... decide not go to MIT. You'll talk to tens of metric tons of us. You may ... except the pony. For reasons unfathomable to me, MIT is stellar at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  -night craving and wandered to safeway for ice cream, where we discovered that there was a four-quarts-for-$3-each sale on tillamook ice cream, and we ... , visiting seattle or looking for a couch to crash on for a few nights. we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... to all the course content but you do not need to do any work for the ... nice and accommodating, but was sometimes too smart for me to understand

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  to land on the moon earlier this year. While their first attempt ... for crashing into the moon."]hard-landed[/annotation], their success in ... ankles, and all of us getting oddly competitive, it was time for me to grab

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... to a camp like RSI for admission purposes - other than for its own sake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out ... character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  years at MIT, I was always able to make time for the American Idol ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow at any rate. EA admits: after today's build, you'll be able to upload ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of my holidays too?       To kick off the spring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  if I could interview her for the blogs. While Flourish did not go to ... , who at the time was a professor at MIT. He wanted to interview me for ... undergrad, MIT wasn't for me -- my childhood best friend went off to MIT, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... supposed to be legen - wait for it - dary. Awe-inspiring. Epic. Life ... cost me my firstborn. Fuji may be a rather strenuous mountain to hike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the ... dining hall in time for breakfast. 2. I love to eat. Because I live in ... you know is looking for something to do. And there's always somewhere to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  , for the low, low price of 1,50 euro per hour. However, the upper room ... . 2. My job. However, the computer is supposed to only be used for ... so we could see Mainz for like one hour. JUST TO SAY WE COULD. I love

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  , so the costs are different. If I were to ask someone out now, maybe it ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . So I try to be realistic about the costs of rejection. Dismissing my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022