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• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college ... have time to stop and smell the roses. Personally, pollen makes me ... are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way ... his pow pow only lasts for a couple hours... Brothers begin to ... Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of ... friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more ... , it was really hard for me to start asking for help and be "okay" when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  existing this summer. And my actual self really wanted to go home for the ... to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  actually see the guy there in person speaking not to mention the slew of ... to say bye to some of the professors, but you are also ready for a ... Monday, my first semester here is abruptly coming to an end. I have

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... of pre-made templates for you to copy and use as your own! In this ... representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Student Center, and we need to be working.  I’m currently working on an assignment for 2.007, which was due Sunday night at Midnight. I’ll explain more about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  donated clothes that audience members brought to donate for charity and for ... products, to the designers of the ridiculously amazing dresses. For example ... semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  . Sometimes I'll consider a personal project I'm not attending to, or even a ... -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... terrain makes it harder for larger molecules to travel, so they'll move

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  cookies for her professors, which to me seems like baking a batch of tenure ... from OpenOffice long enough to wander up two flights of stairs and straight into a delirious, dripping dream. Having recovered enough by now to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  Karvinen (TsK) Antaki, who was born in and will compete for Lebanon, lived ... , sailing, and, of course, UROP. Pat Antaki isn't the first MIT alum to go to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... lottery, I usually prefer to save my luck for the day when I will be ... appears happy and grateful except for the one person who appears happy and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day ... approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay ... much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  , and suddenly (like magic!) I had enough energy to keep going for a while ... we stopped for a proper break. I had to do that a couple more times ... arrived, he suggested that I borrow his sister's mountain bike for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project ... managing to get things done and maintain the high standards you all have for ... according to plan. We do this for a good reason. In all my years as a mom, as

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  least consider doing so. Realize that you don't have to settle for "okay ... have to live in a dorm for a year, you might as well find one that you ... assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... was just after 1 am. We’d gone to all-you-can-eat sushi for three hours ... account for mistakes. We should put in our schedules, she said, noon to 1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How, uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... difficulty. A hat tip to my boss, Chris Peterson, for finding this challenge

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011