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  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in ... Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to work so hard was horseback riding. She goes to Our Day Farm in Elgin six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... personally did not choose RBA because I wanted to get to know a lot of people ... semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It ... and support that so many people provided in order to make this the ... ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... instructions, check to make sure it's not in your spam folder. Otherwise, send an ... and we'll get back to you.

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... aiming to get tonight? Do you have enough food to survive?  With whom will

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... to discuss sex and learning about ways to engage in enjoyable and ... Offered By MIT Medical Free and Readily Available to Everybody (walk-in, no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... based in Madrid. They asked me to come visit them at the European Career

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  you really dropped the ball". So, here's to accountability! Get Fit ... home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... website or anything. I am planning to learn Python in January so! Very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  publish two novels anyway), and one day I might want to get an MFA in ... did what was needed to get a bachelor's in computer science. I ... passions for math and writing, and that I wanted to get into a selective

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I get to mentor the four very lovely freshmen who live here in person ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other ... write a really great paper. We're hoping to get it published somewhere if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  (try “Science, Technology, and Public Policy”). I don’t get to turn in ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The ... classes alongside similarly involved people, and thus don’t often get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  be insufficient in order to get where you need. With my research, it ... draw from in order to get the information I needed in order to be ... , you have to agree with the professor's solution in order to get the A

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  to people all the time who get burned out in classes because it just ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my ... though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually ... like everyone under 40 is crazy about it. I'm not going to get into my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In ... stress fracture in my left foot.  I had to completely stop running from

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and ... interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  , and to get in touch with the admissions office. Good luck! Anonymous ... get there in the fall. Did I read that you get to drive the ambulance as ... know when you'll be getting a call. So there's a lot to keep in mind, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006