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  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  at the bottom of the spreadsheet called "Mailing Labels." This is a ... You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  college, Rindone starts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this ... Tuesday, June 6, 2006 REVERE - Class of 2006 valedictorian Anthony Rindone ... our salvation," Rindone plans to remind his varied group of fellow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my office by checking out the concert by the Chorallaries. Hundreds of people ... ago] A few of the numbers they've done tonight: White Flag (Dido

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  , because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna's Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston restaurant of the variety "cheap AND ... awaiting the opening of the MIT Anna's just as eagerly as the students. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things. To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... two major goals going into the beginning of this summer. One was to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... digital calendar simply wasn't going to cut it. Instead, I took advantage of ... , of course, but the act of writing things out really helps me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  good bit of hope and i jump at the sounds of passersby and each one ... lots of short poems. i don't think i have many words of wisdom or ... . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true that lots of people do things during iap (classes! internships! urops ... i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... 'm around two weeks into it at this point, so it wasn't a sudden shift alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  . Alas, such is life at MIT -- all of us caught up in such dense torrents ... after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech ... through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really. Several times lately I've found myself saying, "So a couple of weeks ago ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment ... advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  mainstream culture. If you've heard of hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of ... at least give you a glimpse of another point of view other than my own ... I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... drafts and actually posting, and part of that requires not thinking so

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course ... At MIT, every student has an advisor -- in fact, throughout their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018