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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I ... teeth. It's sneaking into people's rooms to hide presents in them, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... friends and I went to Spain! And immediately upon landing in Spain, I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... are hammering in morse code and are repreatedly trying to tell you ... for me to get into the class if only I showed up for class on the first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  to do the coding portions, it felt natural for me to get in the zone ... is from california, and as someone who went to high school in minnesota ... branded it as bubble tea. i loved that place in high school, but compared to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... office lady: "You can leave a note for him and I'll get him to e-mail you ... the lane you want. Lifeguard #2: "Okay, you have to jump in, then swim

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... late October, monsters and ghouls love to get together and dance. Thus ... correspond to the music, but will be based on various signals. (Don’t get it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  you'll get a chance to be part of the community here. Please let me ... figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. Don ... can make it! CPW registration is available from your MyMIT portal, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... big stacks of folders to evaluate, still with summary cards (or "E-3 ... rather canary yellow! Okay, so this might not be so exciting to you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light ... essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM ... just managed to slip through the minds of every single person in a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean ... wonderful happened in the year 2006. Some MIT students decided to go all the ... truck to get their cannon back.  The students were met by MIT students who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  materials to make popping boba and talked about working in industry. I loved ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... to work on public policy, too. I don’t know that I want to work in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... would get to it eventually a few times, and then I forgot a few times

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I ... -existent because of the distinct and critical lack of things to climb. Out in West ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

   need. Check if there's an in-house washer and dryer, if that is important to you ... this happens, you tend to bottle yourself in and hide away in your room ... someone to confide in is incredibly helpful since it makes you feel less

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... to get to try them all. I like knowledge, and experiences, and learning ... itself? To leave space in a schedule, to work out and think, to walk places

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... should take a shower and I take long showers so I'll get to bed at maybe 2 ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying ... 's scrambled eggs tutorial and threw some cream cheese in. The trick is to 1

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... GPA even in Course 9, after turning down the opportunity to "earn

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025