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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  today!" Good thing I started writing this entry, because I would be up the ... in the City" on my iPod. There is basically nothing better than walking ... not to get skin cancer. I got to prance around in my new polka

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  680+ would get you "in the range," but he said that I should definitely ... her that I would graduate high school in late june 2006. She said that I would be elligible to apply in her mail. Should I still apply to colleges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... way from back in November!) and I definitely wrote some other entries in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  another life. So I indulged in the visual fantasies, especially when I came ... products were worth buying. I’d finally developed a healthy dose of marketing ... top of the page each time we turn something in. Unfortunately, I make

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... reasons, which I’ll reveal in another post. 11.125 will get a bullet point

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  , but I would discourage you from choosing your college ONLY by the amount ... questions like, "Do I want to be in community with lots of other high achieving students or do I want to be in an environment where more students

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , and I would pick one and work on it. With the endless opportunities and ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified ... ’t F*** This Up”). New planner! Because I’m all grown up and in college

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... , and I'm buying shoes, filling my amazon wishlist with gear, and climbing ... here in Boston. And then the third, the fourth....etc. Why exactly I

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

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... stomach cancer, I found out. She was diagnosed with ductal breast cancer in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I would never join. In addition to this, I've been making an effort ... process it. In December, I dual booted my laptop to run both Windows and Ubuntu, but decided I would never ever touch Ubuntu again after fiddling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... the stars so I think astrophysics would be a lot of fun to study," said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  fully that I would only seriously approach a small number of them. In ... one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I ... art. Unfortunately, I am itchy and covered in scary wheals all the time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in classes now, I need to take classes that genuinely interest me in order for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs ... other in years. I'm sure there were other people I knew previously at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  -hand experience. Back in the nascent dawn of Fall semester, I joined the Tech staff ... terrible excuse for a blogger if I didn't throw in a word or twelve about ... books was in the company of boxes of other unpacked living items. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008