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  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today ... Maine for a relaxing rest of the three day weekend. Mmm... lobster =) ... Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  package. I'm a student who has to go to a full need college--the cost of ... . Not only is the entire process of applying for financial aid confusing ... the U.S. that is need blind and full need for all of our undergraduate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet ... , I was reading some articles from “The Cut”, a section of New York ... Miller. It's one of The Cut's most read articles, and describes how a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... Harvard, and I noticed they had a TON of the new Peach Pit Album. Like, way ... rest of the year! Grrrrrr i'm so upset."] newbury comics

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate ... the entire day, locked myself out of my room, and measured muon velocity to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  preferences about the domains of your required recommendations —  we want one ... than the sentence or so I wrote about each of Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Oliver ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  about - just that you're passionate about something. The character of the ... people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community. The ... other words the admit rate for all EA applicants regardless of when they

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... old girls burn their names into the handles of their jackknives Getting ... I felt like it needed something more. So I walked down the street and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  of use. Click here or on their logo below to see the demo... I thought ... Entrepreneurship Center Entrepreneurship courses "MIT: The Impact of Innovation ... from the comments: Drew '05, founder of Dropbox, writes in: hey -- this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the computer screen and having no breaks except a couple of trips to the bathroom ... 12.5% of our total grade in the class, I was not so happy about it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... amount of time making pasta,[/annotation]and ended up dropping the turkey ... First day of IAP![annotation note="and in an effort to reduce the amount

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the world, i talk about the contradictory feelings of feeling powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is ... . These creatures are sadly never viable...with the exception of one or two resurrected demons...(‘The Gender Problem’ is one such beast). (^PROOF of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  experienced person there!” ...all of the interns were Ph.D students. “Rachel ... weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state. Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of

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

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... grades, and after the loss of my Uncle, I started to look to food as a source of control. I stopped eating a lot of the foods that I would have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation ... Scholberg, now at Duke, doing particle-physics simulations. As part of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton ... . J. P. Licks, the ice cream store of choice of many MIT bloggers, for ... a plate for the low, low price of $.75. All those carbs should give me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005