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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so ... length of time. You end up bundling up so much that you can't actually ... (I tried to place myself into the mindset of a war reporter, covering

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  . "Oh my gosh! I'm in college now! I can do whatever I want! Heehee, my ... : time management. I am sure that many of you can start your homework the ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  . That nice routine I had established in the beginning of the year, working ... !" "Guys, can you keep it down, I've got like 20 hours of work to do and only ... In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  . Ho was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1996, and was the recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  224 suite complained that we stole one of their ideas. =P I've been ... going on in the floor lounge... One of the requirements of 3.091 (one of ... promptly forgets it all. A couple of freshmen were in the process of said

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a ... interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  's the only one you will ever have. I believe in you. Good luck.   ... The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now ... ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  in the next couple of weeks :) A final note: the house I’m staying in ... out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  advance screening tickets to Corpse Bride courtesy of LSC. Of what I got to ... So like Mitra pointed out in her blog this week, this week MIT ... activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  time zone mismatches and Zoom fatigue got in the way of calling. I took ... . One of them was reconnecting with my Harvard friends. As I mentioned in ... student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  given time, in spite of some deadline coming up, I don't fight the feeling ... for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing. But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  can help anywhere. I got a lot of practice talking and writing emails ... Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October ... of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  early in the term and you'll see what I mean. https://vimeo.com/893853200 ... experience in a design team at a modern product development firm. As part of a ... project presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ~1300

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible ... inevitably tore in half, relegating us to the simple luxuries of book

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  wisdom dispensed by the slew of cruft blogs. Reading them, I can't help but ... of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025