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• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  up in April (sign up now)! Since I know you just can’t wait to meet ... to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and ... now stand my ground on what I believe in, as opposed to “agreeing to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided ... Adam and me up to their family's condo at Sunday River in Maine (because ... (who is also coming to Maine) lives in Orange County, so he a) drove us

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  'm just getting lazy and set in my ways in my old age. Last night Adam and ... , though, because I'm not really getting to the heart of the issue. Spaghetti ... than for students who choose not to interview. Also, get started on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... names is to just get married in MA."]more name change paperwork ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  to my left or right, etc.). In the photo, Mitra is showing off the ... headed over to the European Career Fair, for students interested in working ... sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it ... it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  from all over come to MIT to compete to solve insane brain teasers with hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it was like looking back through history, in t-shirts.  I've decided to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at ... Filipino-American Kenny gets a boyfriend in Middle America. Consequences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  IN SALEM!! I didn't get to meet either of them though :( (4) Gratitude ... flurry of good-byes, hugs, and promises to keep in touch. But even those ... towards the train station, I managed to get a video: Also - KEIRA

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  all-nighters to get my college applications in, and neither should you ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... definition of the word, you failed to get in MIT – but you can never believe in ... drills in its students – the capacity to fail and get back up ready to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  -- and when Albert's not in the lab, I get to take over his desk! The ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... to be my biology advisor (if you have two majors, you get two advisors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus[/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  days without having to get S^3 in the loop."This is a little bit like the ... the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the ... are 13 of these, but we only have to turn in 10 of them for full credit

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... oldest mural in East Campus, and according to legend, it was originally ... story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... answer to this question. AP tests are mostly good for getting you out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  adrenaline rush. Being able to make meetings or classes across campus in ... in these cities and to struggle with issues like gentrification. Since ... times in my life, I felt like I could get better at something. I skated

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  get to Harvard in those 4-inch bright red heels or not to get there at ... getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it ... can get up to Boston on a Saturday night. Basically, the company gives

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005