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• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  normal fashion only to be thrown radically off course a quarter way through ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to make some big changes in 2020: find a new job/switch careers, move

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  front-runner for his major. He's excited to find a UROP, join Assassin ... having to actually vote, which was a really nice conclusion to the ... plans to join a variety of organizations related to international culture

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  to find two sophomores in a double, as most move into singles, but Dima ... process. "Living in a triple means we have to be creative about finding ... 't seen the movie yet, but I would find it hard to believe that the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  least a personality). Explore. Laugh. Live. Find friends to last a ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... Groopman, himself a Bostonian - and was burning to return to it and continue

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million ... 's amazing what you can find out about a person online), but as he left a clear ... overcome ("It would be entirely unethical of me to stuff a ballot box, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  freshmen that’s inspiring and a little nostalgic. I didn’t come to MIT with ... gifts as a way to distinguish the recipient of each gift. Then sometime in ... got called ‘kebet’ at school many times, which roughly translates to a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  mother" replied, "A quick note to the mother: I think your son will find ... second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... May 1st is a Sunday, we'll be happy to accept decisions postmarked on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to ... a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much information as possible. You may also want to create a ranking system for each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  make space for. I go to a graduate-level graph theory class that is not ... -majoring. They ask me to sign up for an appointment online. Then I find my other ... 't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due ... students seemed to have a lot of control over their own lives. I liked that ... . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to solve over a hundred puzzles and put the answers together to find a coin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall ... wishes me a good day and departs. I am taken after all--betrothed to my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  progressed to some level of the affiliated fairs, as well as a handful of ... long-delayed flight from Boston. After a nap at my hotel I went down to ... 's impossible to see everyone at ISEF, especially only in a single day, but I got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... . The concert featured professional soloists, and it's always a joy to ... wanted to drink something with a taste, I opened one of my like 50 cans of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  meantime, I just have to tell myself that I'll be okay and I will find a way ... , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... 's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... door wielding a huge-ass Nerf gun like he thought he was about to storm ... I even had a livejournal, I went to check out the MIT community

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  ”, gave a final suggestion against cards, and left. I find it hard to ... older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... student, you're eligible to purchase a discounted monthly T pass. If you don ... stops appear to be in a straight line from each other on the T map, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... a call to tech support, I'm about to tell you. When I show up at IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008