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• 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

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• 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

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• 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?

  If you find something that you're interested in studying that isn't available at MIT, you have the option to cross-register at Harvard, Wellesley College, and MassArt.
• 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

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• 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

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• 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

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• 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

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• 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

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• 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

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• 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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• 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

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• 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

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• 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

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... robot competition, and tomorrow I will take my first class in Toy Product

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour before curfew. Pablo can see this any night of the week. As I said before

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  in top law schools? Thank you so much...I can't wait to see everyone on ... (twice... sorry!), "From what I've read on your website bioengineering (the ... talked to at CPW was interested in this field. I just want to be sure that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  six hours left and a lot can happen in six hours, but I'm in a better ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021