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• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... to college admissions, once you get past the surface differences.) One

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I ... to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ’s currently at said Hatch Shell and tells me in not-so-many words to get there ... line to get in. Ruh roh. But no worries, this entry would not be as ... school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... East Campus devotes annually to bad ideas. Events in swing: grilling in ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  seems a little silly to try to get in touch with them before I get to ... expression is sufficient for programmed cell death to occur in cells of the ... tether it there. You want to examine CED-4 localization in these ced-9 null

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to ... therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... this will spark a conversation in your circle that will lead to some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... 've come compared to where I began and I revel in the progress and the work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to ... /rock genre and now writes and records a few songs each month. In addition to ... usually gets a sneak preview before Joey posts his songs to Youtube for the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... program, the new members had to participate in numerous icebreakers and team ... crazy dance icebreaker. I had the time of my life getting to know other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... each celebrity, saying, "Come to us! Come meet us! We're super cool!" Get ... , hot hour just to get inside. Now, being a freshman, going to the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to ... 's snack, if you're interested). In my infinite kindheartedness to this year ... warning before you get on the MIT Weekend Grocery Shuttle (loops around to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... : students get many opportunities to donate blood on campus. Seen from the ... , and you'll get all the way to Downtown Boston and Back Bay. Travel to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... that you have to go to an Ivy or a Stanford or an MIT in order to become something. In this day and age, this is far from the truth. You can go to a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  entire suite had mono sophomore year and I wanted to get tested just in ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go ... the solutions, that way I have something to look at if I get stuck. This

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011