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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point ... him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... want to achieve anything in life, you need to both work hard and be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week ... variables it takes to describe a space. for example, in order to describe any ... of Curves & Surfaces i have really wanted to take a course in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... ourselves being send with our students to a hackathon in Barcelona. It feels ... other. In Spain, my life got the chance to intersect with people I never

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... to MIT and saw MTG’s Firebringer in freshman fall. I have no performing

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  skyline, and thus love my room. When there’s nice weather out, I get to see ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... 5 on AP Calculus BC in high school, so I was expecting to get credit ... decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L ... his room and attended 6.006–Intro to Algorithms, a course located in the ... choice to focus in Digital Systems Design.   There are two of these

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to ... other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... forward to in the next two years. PC: Chheangkea Ieng.   Best ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  student, I’d like to get more invested in activism on and outside campus, so ... asleep in the stairwell next to it. If you count the people about to head ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  building things in East Campus to leading dorms tours to Meet the Bloggers to ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them ... BOOM! CPW is now over and dear sweet gummy bear in the sky was it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn ... meet people in all sorts of majors, wanting to do all sorts of things

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... . Some Resolutions I'm resolving to leave being hosed in 2019. I know this ... was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... than the outside air *in a fancy voice* "very nice." – Kayode To ... surgery patients in the U.S." janet: i really want to ask a question

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  20 euro per night price tag. The second thing we did in Nice was go to ... easy getting to sleep on my unimpeachably soft MIT mattress is) . You can ... somehow built around me. There is like one person in the world who gets that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of 2.5.) 2. It is possible to succeed in life even despite enormous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... enough time to say hello to each of the colored balls in Simmon's (ex ... that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010