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  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  might've had your mind blown. He's the type of Guido that made a ... Mind, but this is most often the Linguistics Department) while still ... purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... , since she's always loved musical theater, began to throw around the idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point ... dramatically after college, junior year became the "just do it" era. This motto has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

    Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th ... Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  , The Bravery, Neon Trees, Bloc Party, The Fratellis, etc…) 3. Kaisers. The German emperors. Actually, their awesomeness is debatable. So nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps the first ever. He was admitted. But he said no. Here's the story, from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: One day, about eight years ago, Kevin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  Let me tell you, flying home during the summer is much less painful than flying home during the winter. This is actually the first time I've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... which will not be nearly as cool when blogged about after the fact. (By the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got ... are said/done at MIT in the dorms after midnight. Both are 100% true stories. Shock Monkey I woke up the other morning and, as I do every

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  , especially for my friends living in the fraternities (most MIT fraternities and ... these epic pictures of the riots fresh from Corey '10's camera, outside of ... had our own Burton-Conner-wide celebration last Sunday when the Red Sox

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... blog didn't give off quite the same sarcastic vibe that I usually exude ... least, that’s what I’ve always thought. Due to what the Florida Department

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  application will once again be considered by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications. We will admit the best applications we can during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17 ... scores 2001: Pretty good, but nothing really outstanding in the applicant

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  ROY HESS The Brownsville Herald May 25, 2006 -- The opportunity that lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the ... -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... ). We were on an inbound Red Line train, and the conductor kept adamantly ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  of nowhere Bryan: a piano fell out of the sky Diana: HAHA Bryan ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... moved the street Diana: and when we tried hurling the piano to the new

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006