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• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , I would trudge back to campus afterwards for a night exam or office hours or a checkoff for 6.0001 or 6.009 or 6.004. I was hungry and desperate and cranky and I hated waiting ninety minutes for a checkoff, but

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs, especially when the blogs have been such a cozy, homey place for me, a respite ... other interns and I decided to get rush tickets for a Saturday 1pm showing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... keep going strong for more than a decade, that they would one day be ... more than a distant reading of the blogs (at least, for this particular

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  want to learn about Islam. I ask her for a lesson. We get drinks, snacks ... are registered for my afternoon Introduction to Radio Astronomy class. A ... I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  exclaimed that there was a high tolerance for failure. Her statements about ... band at MIT) and he even found the perfect place for my arcade that has a ... . And of course, as with a good pizza, I always save the best for last

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  hearing a sentence that went like this: “Yo Ben I have this idea for ... really good program for a school like that ‘insert name of a high ranking ... little, I guess I am writing this blog post for a lot of people going to an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the ... found stress. Lots of stress. As I mentioned, this is a season for ... wording of an essay prompt. For a little under two hours, I played proof

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  're even remotely qualified, which means submitting a "proof of time" for a ... registered for a whole host of half marathons that summer.  The first one was ... minutes, which is what I used for my proof of time for Disney. Next was a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  residents went back and forth for a few years, reportedly until 1972. After ... to the first post in this series, I sent out a poll asking people for ... Easter eggs for the astute observer (my favorite is a white picket fence as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a student at MIT.) A couple weeks before the end of term, we abandoned an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  ; A: I’m keeping the initials for consistency, but if you haven’t read ... catch up for a bit. I also interviewed three other people for another ... enthusiastically, and we set up a time for that weekend. I was so nervous about the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... as a lifeguard. I'm not kidding.) But then today I was struck with ... adventure known as 2.009. This is the famous capstone class for seniors in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a ... , and even had an invitation for an in-person interview and tour of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  really into it. I would frequently ask for advice from a friend, Lex '00 ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... register for a MyMIT account without your MIT ID, your username and password ... mail at approximately the same time.) If this date/time changes for any

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I ... and Angelina Jolie order for lunch at an Edmonton eatery? Is a GE air ... . Lone hunters looking for a team can sign up as unattached hunters. New

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff ... Hampshire, an autodidact dancer (and dancing autodidact), proud author of a 200 page fanfiction about volleyball anime and survivor of a Snively

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As ... Facebook feed to find a ring that can replace my CharlieCard, an RFID

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Wednesday afternoon, November 21 through Monday morning, November 26 for the ... MIT tracking shows a missing component, please fax it to 617-687-9184. Note that ... until a few days after the holiday. Please do not send multiple copies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012