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• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  stories and tips. My team is a force. We sleep outside offices and dorm rooms when people try to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  ubiquitous as a professional chat room, it was a project management term referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  bottle. Story behind this is that I dropped my H2GO 20.9oz asi51197 from a ... herself in being a queer Bengali American from New York City, so people who ... touching the lit up part of the prop. I bought a pair of Podpoi from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that ... in school? That last question came from a student at a high school that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  had been able to practice from a couple years also doing oral ... and only viewing the bad. I have a pretty good biology background from ... (Read part 1!) I will start with a disclaimer--there are definitely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  technology. I just graduated from a nerdy tech school and the only reason I ... website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  out if Mom sent you any care packages lately, check out a movie from the ... - collections of all the notes/psets/exams in a particular course from previous ... (separate from the floor lounge), a kitchen, and a bathroom. The 23 suite is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  probably the fact that I came from a pretty large high school. We had several ... from my professors and throughout the wider ESG community. Just a whole ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  a Friday night undeserving of weekend status, I'd traveled from the ... physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  video game and joystick, a detector for interplanetary communication, HDTV ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the ... Corporation. Currently, she is a lab assistant, or L.A., for a new class called

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... people, and never showering. This is definitely not the case - as a matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  supermarket just a stone's throw from MIT campus. Orange juice was only $1 ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days. I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  verrry busy. Here's a recap: Last Saturday: Spring Weekend is an annual MIT tradition, complete with: - a performance by a top-notch band (it ... Lloyd Banks performed.) - an International Fair that sells yummy food from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... . :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the ... st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  -9/11 provided a somber transition from the 90s to the 2000s. Fall Down ... naturally from the footage they encountered. The result is a 3.5 hour film ... examines MIT from a viewpoint distinct from what we see in popular culture

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  being a personable platform. A platform that brought together people from ... a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now ... 't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... my experiences abroad a few years ago, i would hang out with college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020