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• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... focus and let nothing get in my way. tick I feel like despite operating at ... break me. … I love the challenge. In high school, I often had to push

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  occasion to get paid just to sit back and have fun, so I definitely seized the opportunity. I had to leave early to get to campus to film the ... 'll be participating in Orientation. Sunday, I had the opportunity to dim

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  whenever my Lolo couldn't even fathom me not getting in. My mom had tried to ... my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my ... wanted to stay in southern California for the sake of my grandfather, out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i ... discusses the sense of purgatory i feel in this post. some '22s i've spoken to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... 's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... Aeneas. We studied this opera in my music class, and I was excited to hear ... my music class, we listened to his Overture in D Minor and Sonata No. 3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  gave me my awesome experience in Spain. Then, they also sent me to Italy ... and finally went to bed miserable and depressed, I find this email in my ... are going to be on the job market in the next six months, we encourage

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  get them to you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be directly sent to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will ... when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... campus. I'll get to work on that next week, no problem. EC. Matt and I ... 'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... help fabricate portions of projects for these classes. In addition to ... whether you'd like to contribute.  I make an appearance in the video at 3

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there ... random rock-paper-scissor tournaments, assaulting people to get them interested in working for MIT's ambulance - "HEY! RYAN! YOU WANT TO RIDE AN

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  to write things down. Fully immersing myself in every single moment ... lifetime experiences. In between visiting sangomas (traditional healers) to ... in Boston. They shiver at the thought. They ask to decorate my face

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more ... So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton ... exciting for two reasons... first, it was my first ride in an ambulance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  to pick up your UMA pi day T-shirt! All contest winners get pi ... in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something ... Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee. Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... foundation for study in your major. In your second semester, you might add subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... Questbridge College Admissions Conference at Yale. The idea in a nutshell is to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  there so that the freshman can get the best idea of where they want to ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your ... voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011