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  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... what kinds of things they talk about. A week and a half to the early ... Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my ... that I am an [annotation note='per the registrar, the class of 2021 has 9

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... crafted a very clever plan, sort of like the plan you make when you are ... simultaneously was not good enough for me to take 8.012, the advanced version of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high ... finished the psets early in an attempt to carve out three days of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as ... you, I assume) am spending the day working on applications. Most of the ... substantial statement of purpose that will make the admissions committees fall

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  . GTL? IFC? ADT? On top of the new place names and numbered courses, it ... . (If you just want a list of the translations, you can find them here ... , it's only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  borrow a small, discreet digital point and shoot of the latest technology ... 's the plan. Of course, it's been 2 years since I was a prospective student ... a test (it's pretty funny if you're not one of the kids) I could do

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  . We'll view the movie "Pi", while simultaneously enjoying a dinner of ... who knows the most digits of Pi will be rewarded with a Pie! Come for ... . TONIGHT. Like Pi? or "Pi"? How about Pie? TONIGHT, 7:30pm at the Hillel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  play on the MIT Alumni Club of Boston team. As I like to say in my ... -10, register today on MyMIT!), I came across this article on the MIT Athletics ... -America Honors March 21, 2005 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT pistol team claimed its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  one of them casually remarked, "Oh, I saw Mitra the other day ... those of you who don't know, was the original admissions blogger, and ... last year of blogging the year I started thinking about applying to MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  keep my busy this summer, one of which is... THE DREADED MCAT. Yeah ... (one branch of the national Camp Kesem organization) is a student group ... ! ♥ Being silly Happy! Ambar '12 with a group of young campers The 2010

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me ... Ghost of Stephen Foster by the Squirrel Nut Zippers 4:13 PM Alright, I ... throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing.

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any ... probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... Podcast, and freak out over Brexit. The only grain of similarity I could get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... convey who you are (or some aspect of who you are). If I, the reader, am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... the whole college. Those of you with whom I've spoken about Oberlin know ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  especially when – it’s cold outside. The [annotation note="or is it one of ... lunch, featuring my ridiculously good view of the Boston skyline ... just a forgotten, barren valley between the hills of early adulthood

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021