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• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  around campus, dressed up in our Air Battle Uniforms (you know, the green ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn ... on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... going in this discipline. But job aside, I’ve also distilled what I want ... , by the way, was something I acquired during an IAP program in South

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am ... things in life. i will not be as strong as mike posner in telling you these

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that ... . (What more do college students want?) I'm a big fan of Alpine Bagel in the ... , because it's cheaper and healthier... also, I live in a dorm with no dining

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... Indie Games celebrates the games you quite often find in the Humble Bundle ... looks like it'll be a first day watch for me. And with that I'll finish

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... questions about what the company is looking for in its candidates. Before I ... attributes I’m learning in the GEL program! Small company: Be ready to work

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get ... . In the end, I'm glad I came here, absolutely. I learned so much about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT Sandwich In The World™: (1) Slap together week-old bacon, lettuce, tomatoes ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  talk at MIT because I think it would be really interesting to hear about ... this happen. But this idea lives rent-free in my head. I also consume a ... recognition in this blog post. I've found that it's really hard for me to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton ... 't realized how much I blog about BC. Helping with the website made me really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a ... from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... one, but us. We did it for *art*.  In eighth grade, we had an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I ... retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i ... 'd been debating about buying an iPod Shuffle for a while just so I'd have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water ... literally has no water. When you or I or even people living in Addis Ababa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... young? haha - tangent: i still get id'ed every time when i buy tylenol at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  subjects to succeed in later classes. That’s true, but I wanted to give the ... tests, I basically took the corresponding MIT course online. (In fact ... -studying conceptual subjects. I didn’t take AP Bio in high school but was able to review

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  all about the BBQ and fun with friends. I took in the action from Baker ... . FIREWORKS!!! I was always told that July 4th in Boston was ... names, and in the true spirit of MIT, a friend said: Friend: If I had a

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... . Since I hadn't taken any lab classes or worked in any labs, I wrote about ... of cute, in an eager beaver sort of way.) The NIH website encouraged

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  throw print statements everywhere in the same way that I would with a ... [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something ... "]bros[/annotation] wanting to broaden their horizons. While I've used a multimeter before in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023