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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... , with images of British aristocracy vacationing in the south of France coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen students take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn ... glider on the South Island for a week through Youth Glide New Zealand. In ... on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated ... combination of technology and fashion design. By December I knew I would be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  spare time. Anastassia: “I can answer that counter-chronologically in Blog ... to Miami as I departed to see THE DALAI LAMA in his talk on ethics ... . Furthermore, I also participated in another form of dance, playing dodgeball, in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... shadows of a face. In stats I concentrated on the hatching of clouds instead ... "]p-values,[/annotation] in comparative government I rushed sloppy notes in favor of drawing the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  I was in for--originally thinking the project would take the rest of ... in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... enlarger. I fancied seeing what an 8x10 negative would look like, but the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and ... biology major, and the classes I've learned them in: 1. When you have a ... -trained students. I've been to Urgent Care way too many times in my undergraduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the ... that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... flying into our eyes and nearly killing us, and also I fell asleep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  constraints, we designed a fuel cell that would fit in a cell phone and seemed like it would work pretty well. You fuel it by buying 2 x 2 in cartridges ... cell are carbon dioxide and water. In fact, it would actually be less

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  in a saucepan just to see what would happen. I remember meeting French ... 't half-ass anything on Conner 2, unless it's every problem set I turned in ... tour of Boston that basically touched on every place in Boston I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV ... pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  summarize the entirety of my MIT experience in one sentence, it would be: I ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... during those weeks what they thought life would be like in 2020, they would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in your shoes. I would love to vicariously wear them again.   ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... read and write in Russian. After school I went to an archetypal after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  blogging. Which will be a sad day. ---- So I'm now living in THE NYC, on ... ). Theoretically, I live in East Harlem, since we have the East Harlem zip code ... "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  , and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in ... store so I could buy some good cheese. And everyone was so nice and ... a real hip club in downtown Boston. It was louder than I expected. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... eat. Its an exceptional treat that I would love to do right now ... would be an alternate way across the river. Nope. I skated back. How about

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons ... in Indiana that we got from our neighbors and I adored it so…until it ... ="94970" /] I made a proposal at the last house meeting to buy a drum set for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023