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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... you’re trying to print something huge, you can’t have a regular printer, of course, because first you’d have to build a giant printer before

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  special to it, I painted, bought a floor lamp, and threw up a good number of posters. I did really like the color I picked, but it turned out to be a ... color, I believe, was "Bali Turquoise," which led to a little inspiration

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... ; Whereas most universities force you to purchase a huge, gut-stuffing, wallet-busting, totally superfluous meal plan, MIT doesn't force you to buy a meal plan at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  with undergrads and is there to be like a first point of contact for help ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow ... ! i do love my job. talking to students is great, managing a dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... , it is instead extracting myself to a list of personal details, becoming ... feeling like the same thing. two. i've applied to a lot of places as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  exposed brick walls.) Ok, now I have to have a halloween costume by ... Yes, it's been a while since my last entry...much has happened. I am now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  a lot have no finals, just projects), and four finals turned out to be ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it ... MIT students have a lot on their plate, and are very willing to give you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  graduate school to being a professor, or from medical school to being a ... would be huge: Go to college. Go to graduate school. ??? Be a ... took a leap of faith and applied to MIT. I took the first steps, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  ? It's always a good idea to contact the coach for your sport if you are ... high school math are recommended for applying to MIT. I'm going to be a senior next year and I have chosen a Java class. Due to scheduling problems

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... for checking this: give your essays to a good friend and ask if they can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... clunkiness to your username. Say your username out loud a few times to check ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... starters, Lobby 7, the entrance to MIT from the road, was transformed into a ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  pasted on the side of a bus. Having a dedicated 5+ hours/week to really ... exactly Twitch Plays Pokemon managed to develop not only a following of ... we get to go to events for free. The CMS department sponsored me and a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college ... conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years ... ’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are ... getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... (a well-balanced diet if you know where to look). I used the money that ... .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016