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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of ... harder, with no benefits in exchange; the intent is that you just get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... , naturally, I thought that I ~had~ to be an extrovert in order to be successful

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... access to Rosalind's data and photographs in slightly sketchy ways- not ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  Admissions staff with new and exciting things in your life. How to send us ... , some context in which to understand them. This year was our biggest ... (Early + Regular) to exceed 17,800! Let's put these numbers in some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , growing up in South Dakota, I always wanted to get away from home and move ... am back in South Dakota, for example, I often get the urge to just take ... members in the area to fill in for vocal parts that are underrepresented

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  situation in Germany. So, since we didn't quite get to the haircut unit in ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... our plight. Sam: "Yeah, I really need to do get some money on my laundry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  .) paper art is pretty. With that in mind, I started reaching out to ... conversations, I found a group of people in Course 2 that I enjoyed talking to and ... -cut paper. 1/22/24 to 1/24/24 In the beginning of the week, I went to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to ... myself back in the auditorium listening to the final round of presentations

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  some sort of physics lab tour, and I stopped in between only to get ... when you have to get off in Florida 80-degree weather and will sweat ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... ) So that's my week. I need to get back to 2.001 now, hopefully I can ... work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... groups, you wouldn't really get to fully experience MIT. Thus, CPW is like ... ... The Meet the Bloggers party was Friday night, and it was great to get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be ... biology rn (get excited) The grad school post. How applying to grad ... 're going to stop updating it in 2020 so I am making some good memories with

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several ... other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... very impressive. But I have to admit - sometimes I wish we'd get ... 're really going to go far in life and have gorgeous kids and save the world

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007