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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has ... doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... work. Most people know how to use Sheets, anyway. Plus, it's in your

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... wanted to live and which activities i was interested in, but i ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... in grisly detail, are incredible books that I have no choice but to ... myself. in terms of tracking music, I was too lazy to develop a rating

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... , instead of just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... dancer—chances to dance in so many different styles in such a short period ... 's therapeutic and fun and satisfying since you get to EAT the food you make!! i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... -Center. There's a bunch of stuff I want to check out in the 5:00PM - 8:00PM slot

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  respond to much of anything in the next 42 hours or so as we wrap everything ... 't eaten dinner yet. Time to go get some food... ... Things are getting fast and furious as we head towards Thursday, but

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... excited, in fact, that I came home after class last Friday to this lovely ... perfectly: I was booked to be in my Science, Technology, and Society (STS

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  their stronghold. Our first priority was to get out the window to ... me off. In the end, Conner 2 was victorious. Nothing remains to ... Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  sometimes) So, who should we get to go to this audition? Ben is married with ... . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to ... this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  joined clubs, went to events, partook in many things. But the activation ... quite hard and not allowing myself to rest. After our week-long break in ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on ... --swell to life in the imagination. I've been posting my favorite poems from

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... set and are MAD expensive. I also need to confirm that getting a ... was passed to get an ice cream machine for Simmons, but the plumbing to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  available. I hope this is somewhat helpful to those of you in the homeschool ... 'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ... our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations ... professor. This is a class I’m particularly glad to get because I tried taking

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is ... -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... regular floor plan of our lecture space, just to get acquainted with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010