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  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  . (Yes, that was in honor of the 5.12 test that I didn't study that much ... for employee morale here at admissions. I can sort of see what he ... named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  . As always, I promise to let you know as soon as I can -- hopefully soon ... once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of ... event this Thursday at 8pm EST / 5pm PST. I hope you'll be there! If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  Magazine as one of the 10 Best Entrepreneurship Classes in America.) I'd say ... IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  everywhere, and there was confetti. Lots and lots of confetti. I could definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I ... to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... .021 because the class is rather small (only really consisting of 11? people if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  awesome weekend. (Fine, you can't actually take the class of 2014. I think ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is ... admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  questions I was asked was "Can you name all of the Beatles' first and last ... check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can-get-out-of ... with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early ... sense of spatial planning.[/annotation] As much as I don't want to admit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  about three weeks, so I’m cramming my remaining time here in the land of ... This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... more like 20, on my list, so that I always have back-ups whenever one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and ... compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  excited about any of them. Eventually, I realized I was more interested in ... intention of nabbing as many free t-shirts as possible (33, in case you were ... , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• 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 ... systems. In it, I found this photo of Harvard Bridge from 1929: This ... handbooks, and I find a map in the 1959 version. Bingo! Of course, there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... the first three terms, I treated MIT like most upperclassmen have in the ... , not because of MIT, but because I had forgotten who I was. MIT became

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much about the MIT startup community. One of the projects I'm co-leading is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... ’re Anne Liu ’08 (Course 7; iHouse). At the beginning of her

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... the general store), I can still remember exactly how it happened ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... question, as at the time I didn't recognize most of the words in his sentence ... dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015