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• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Brady's house, tried to get into some tall buildings, but it was like 1 in ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several ... who avoided going on the hike decided to simply walk around in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the advertisements on your spam folder page in Gmail.) 5. Write thank-you letters to ... 't matter whether or not they directly helped you get in; these people helped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you. We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... stop chasing perfection. I wanted to talk about moving in, finally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would ... T to HMart with my little grocery tote in hand. Walking across the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... friends this summer eventually turned into, “it’s too much effort to get ... officially enrolled! Step 5. Get yourself to Harvard The inefficiency of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  :00 . . . that's AM, in case this isn't clear, which it probably isn't to my ... prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a ... If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt ... this earth to live in LA, and i couldn't run more than a mile without

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  every circle’s circumference to its diameter is exactly pi: in other words ... [/latex] gets at an even more fundamental relationship that is present in circles ... [/latex] in total), and we'll get the area of the circle! However, this sum is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  advance. Get their phone number. Arrange to check in and coordinate your ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... dodge drunks in urine-filled street corners and go to sleep when the ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  get in the habit of meal prepping or cooking [annotation note="if that ... way for you to get involved - just download, log on, and get saving ... ="just the pearls, without the tea"]boba[/annotation] in addition to the batch

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to ... ’s exit options to attend medical school, but I recently checked her LinkedIn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  demonstration in Solid State Chemistry. I returned to Random Hall in a numb state ... in my room escalated back to numbers that looked like my test scores in ... , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying ... bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... . So don't run out and buy textbooks yet! Wait until you get to school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  worry as you guys do. Getting into graduate school in biology is not, in fact, all that hard; it's a lot harder to get into law school or medical school than it is to get into PhD programs in biology. And because not as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005