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

  

  things were all set. Last week someone clued me in to the fact that MIT had ... did have 50-75 people standing and/or sitting in the aisles - if you ... first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before

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

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... 'll have to figure out how YOU learn most effectively. Or maybe you already ... wanted to know the material, whether or not you kicked butt on the exam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day ... I'm always one to celebrate the more obscure holidays. After all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  amount of sleep you need (or in some cases, the amount of caffeine you can ... First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , "In the application form you ask whether or not we have already tried to ... writing into the optional section in Part 2, or mail hardcopies to the ... supplement next week or waiting to send both in at the same time? Thank you for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  fanfics until 3 in the morning or deep-diving into carefully curated ... knew what I wanted to do. In elementary school, I'd write short stories ... job prospects to solely STEM. In my sophomore year, I took a biomedical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  country in Africa they are actually from. None of us knew what it means to ... culture or world awareness day. That was simply the world we lived in. This ... As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine for free. My bad. You may be wondering how governments (or, in this ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal ... vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  's always open. I might even have cookies or pie. Those of you who want to be ... figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  , Indian, or Thai food before I got to MIT. (Come to MIT! Expand your culinary horizons!) Work Next week is my last week in the lab (which is to ... about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  MIT in your sights shows that you must believe in yourself to some ... 't realize is that if someone decides to invest something in you—in this case ... adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... that I have four exams in the next week. Like the Goldberg Variations or ... is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... , another anon, the email address doesn't seem to be the one in our database ... MIT or your other choice university -- or you need to appeal your award

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President of the US. In middle school I wanted to be popular. Freshman year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you ... ‘20 were very involved in!) originally founded in 2017 to paint a long ... , whether it’s in the tunnels, the Banana Lounge, or online. Their

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  tuned in to her feelings, while he is a kid who frequently feels angsty or ... -read, or, in the case of Addie LaRue, to begin.[/caption] ... Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I ... teeth. It's sneaking into people's rooms to hide presents in them, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  're free to change what you do, or to do as many things as you want. MIT ... American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap syllables between adjacent words, often to comedic effect. An inattentive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  ="and, in one particularly exciting scene, to stand there and receive four or ... least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022