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Blog / MIT Life
“Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans
the following announcement: I originally became a AAS member in order ... provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of -
Blog / Academics & Research
it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day
everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I ... acknowledge it. Instead of getting up, I lie in bed, check my email, and read ... "getting to class exactly on time" down to a science; I can afford to waste a -
Blog / Athletics
Lax bros and their workflows
. Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but when the recruiting process began, I quickly fell in love with the idea -
Blog / MIT Life
Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did
the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was ... bed early tonight. Things I'd like to blog about in the future? - Toy ... I'm not sure anybody has mentioned her, so allow me. Everybody, meet -
Blog / Challenges
Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...
one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are so many I can't possibly do them all, in a day or a week or even this -
Blog / Summer
bay area parties well, two of them
in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... , sure. more variance in age, with what i'm pretty sure were prefrosh and ... was what people talked about. the conversations i had in this "sf party -
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'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I take a summer session?
During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for -
FAQ / Academics and research
What schools can I cross-register with?
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Blog / CPW
the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman
though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... attended orientation/put my luggage in Burton-Conner, the dorm at which I was ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner -
Blog / Challenges
you can care about things revisiting stoicism
choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my ... . i don’t think recruiters are actually emotionally invested in ... ensuring you have no say in your friend’s decisions (i think the stoic -
Blog / Advice
We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you
We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... year of high school. In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high -
Blog / MIT Life
#tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts
unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... friends in my dorm than a million-dollar view, but I guess I can’t be ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories
happen. I included videos of the talks in this entry, and I highly ... board in early April, and it was wonderful. I remember one night when the ... said he was excited to be involved in such an event: "I was particularly -
Blog / Admissions
Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…
qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... to death in other threads, so I won't do so here. (*Match = mission -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.
virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has ... think I can confidently generalize that we all like a challenge. (Adam -
Blog / Academics & Research
done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers
classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... I’ve taken a 9-unit Drawing class and been in a 6-unit music ensemble ... Multi-Varible Calculus in ESG (my first-year learning community) and I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE
There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... fundraisers, a development that I am personally pretty excited about. In the ... them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS -
Blog / Academics & Research
What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)
"advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE