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  What have I been doing this break?

  

  -law - Seen (and lived in, for a few days) my dad and stepmother's huge new ... think. For an elite school, MIT gets a pretty good number of first ... term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  'd ever want to know to be neatly packaged in an organized, clearly ... for it, which is so good that literally every university with an ... nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to ... more than an obnoxious insect buzzing in MIT's face. Chris '12 probably ... started. For a period of about two weeks they were CONSTANTLY outside

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... in the picture, for a variety of reasons. First, the building in the ... actually use that building? For an answer to 1, we can consult the modern

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  themselves in styles from different decades, and I got to shoot for them! It ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me ... excitement. Actually, there's been too much excitement for me to find the time

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  semesters, I’ve taken 43 classes, totaling 510 units, for an average of about ... course number (except for when I had only taken one class in that course ... space here to learn just for the sake of learning, in whatever field

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  develops an appreciation for your teachers when you realize how hard it is ... list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... prepare lesson plans (again, you really develop an appreciation for teachers

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  in time for this post. Some drafts tried to give advice for incoming ... . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  and criticize/ comment on them. We meet every Tuesday for three hours in ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  for the first few rehearsals)[/caption] Not the most exciting things in ... With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big lecture halls in the Stata Center"]32-123[/annotation] and PE registration

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... flowers in an orange juice glass, a tiny chalkboard complements a tiny ... in its exterior it more than makes up for in its inhabitants and its

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I tried was any better. Twiddling with dimensions in SolidWorks for ... and getting good at it, as if I was holding out for a better goal. In

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

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  that there is also an option in the Report for students whose schools do ... [Editor’s note in 2023: This post contains outdated information. The Midyear Grade Report is intended for students who have indicated on the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  I got chosen to be an Associate Advisor for freshmen in the fall ... that although it was an MIT-organized trip, it was really for the Boston ... Israel for an extra five days for an MIT extension run through MIT's MISTI

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic ... Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had ... received an email about civic engagement at MIT. Passions were high on both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  standards for Campus Preview Weekend, set to be unveiled in April 2018. The ... redesigned the sites for Admissions and SFS a few years back. We did, in fact ... . Though we ended up going in a different direction, my earliest plans for

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the ... This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  .  Being an international black student puts me in this interesting position ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to ... around the globe. In the words of Rihanna (an absolute queen, we stan

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  extra. But if, for some reason, you want to send us something - like an ... 'delayed acceptance' or a 'polite rejection', just an opportunity for ... , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to ... other distra- I mean, classmates around for help. I'm a firm believer in ... well. Then I can make something up in order to not look like an idiot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005