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• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks ... write and 2 exams still in August, I'll have to spend my summer continuing

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  when I don't have to worry about the legibility of my notes when I get ... It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at Mc ... --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions ... effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone ... 't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the ... , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  application was strong enough in terms of academic merit to get into the college ... passionate about way back in August, and knew I wanted to ED it, no questions ... applications (while wondering why in the world my interviewer hasn't bothered to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  , in addition to getting really hungry, I also get really sappy and ... getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... :P Every once in awhile, you come to MIT and you hear of kids here ... final toy. It's the first project in the course designed for students to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from ... . I'll be watching, just to give the show a good kick in the pants on ... does idiotic things to ruin her relationship with her dad in exchange for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  problems with getting the code to work in realistic scenarios with noisy ... encounter in my policy classes (compared to my friends) lol"]seems like it ... ="communication-intensive class in your major -- you need two to graduate, and they're usually lab

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  to getting to know you. To tell you a little about myself, I’ve had ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in admissions. To tell the truth, I didn’t know one could have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the ... character, Billy." No biggie. It's okay to perform in a musical and sing a ... ...it sounded so different from how it did on Youtube. I still managed to come in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  blogger, I'll try to keep you updated. 1. Sleep. Getting enough of it will ... . 5. Real world stuff. I want to get off campus sometimes, make outside ... science. I want to keep this all in perspective. And sometimes I just want

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  that isn't even there get in your way. You want to be challenged more ... . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... fire alarm in the middle of a deep sleep. Right. Back to what I was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  week and it was blissful to get away from MIT and have some fun in the ... supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling ... know that he graduated first? =p). For some reason (to be discussed in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007