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• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  interesting you would like to say about yourself/where you live/what's in the ... know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters ... pretty majestic! (she's the girl in the picture) Which got me thinking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... difficult to cultivate in their children. While I did ultimately answer the ... I have known for some time that my approach to things can be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... applications in earnest. Here are some updates from the Admissions Office ... currently processing more than 10,000 documents which have all arrived in just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last meal in the Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not ... 's Excellent Adventure, Looper, Safety Not Guaranteed, Midnight in Paris. But I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  absolutely the right decision. I took three classes in my major this last ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  that if we got snowed in then they would send a helicopter =) Off we went ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  more people in a day than I would in a week of high school, I felt ... 1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  in the class, has been pretty chill so far. I’m sure I’ll be eating my ... about in an upcoming post. I got cooked to death on my last midterm but it ... semester, so I doubled up this semester in order to get on track to complete

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning ... voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  things i've been doing in the past week. it's truly felt breathless. i ... what things were like back in the day, the next night i'm in a hallway ... and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  up, I would be awake. I was, and I showed up in Killian in the pitch ... If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... . With the first dome hack in three years, why would it just be a banner

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of ... in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  mind, he did what anyone in his position would do: he spent hours on You ... something today. Oh, my name is Kellen and I work in the communications wing ... come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  existence or what I was having for lunch the next day or what I would sing ... . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... !xobile Time: 12:48 PM Subject: long story I had a dream that I went out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... , computers were always my brother's thing. Growing up I would spend my internet ... continued to learn. I wanted nothing more than to carve my own niche in my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020