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• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty ... this entry would be really anticlimactic if I hadn't gotten her room, so ... -Conner (as well as in Senior Haus, East Campus, Bexley, and I believe Random

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  was currently in, and as long as i did so things would naturally get ... in lockdown so i never saw any dentists. my gums became weaker and ... nine months straight. back when i was at home i would go on runs every

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  . Disclaimer: most of these people were working in Computer Science—but I also ... , and a variety of other fields! I was the last person I thought would ... programming classes, but I’d never worked in a tech company before. But by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... company (this has happened a few times when I didn't perform well in a ... that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I ... unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of too much consequence in my graduate school application, since I already

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the ... miscellaneous assignments due. I put in solid training practices at the rink

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  discovered this morning in my scanner. I never took it out after making copies ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... difference was between CI-H and CI-HW. Still don't, in fact. So I just filled

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  . Unfortunately, this was the best picture I took of him: The curly thing in the ... Mary" and "YMCA"--well, CCR are kind of rooted in American folk rock, I ... fireworks pictures. Granted, they would have been much better had I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... tours of Harvard, MIT and Yale, fully confident I would not get accepted ... embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note="I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... the physics textbooks I would use next semester (my personal record is forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... sunshine and roses would be lying. I've never been very good at identifying ... ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  series of TableTop and I fell in love. Every week Wil Wheaton would gather ... construct an argument, with sources, about what would have happened. Here are a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  I believed in my abilities so much that I genuinely go around telling ... life"]26-100[/annotation], but I was in[annotation note = "A separate ... because I generally enjoy this class? I did debate in high school so I have

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... otherwise, and my fraternity has played a huge role in my life ever since I ... would be one of the most important decisions I've made this year. Now that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... . Allen was my sailing partner in the Sailing PE class that I took during ... up and down in the water!). When I first arrived at MIT, I must admit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  with students taking an active part in the discussion. I'll try to note some of the more interesting events as IAP progresses. Also, I asked in a ... events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and ... I knew it, I’m in front of the Samuel Tak Lee balancing on the board

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  that did not rank MIT, but you would like to apply for our Regular Action ... know in advance. Learn more about this process here. If you applied for
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  last but not least: sara Just going in, I knew this challenge would be a ... note="and i must clarify with the pain in my heart that i now also ... was very consistent in the pace at which she was writing. i think this

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only ... from home, I didn't really think my parents would miss me (and I honestly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020