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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to ... and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  'd actually be a paragraph in a giant book about the Taj Mahal. I had to take a ... and a previous call to the airline), and she eventually caved in ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... wanted to come to MIT. They made me realize that MIT is, in a word, awesome ... MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... Saturday or in April, you're going to experience this crazy whirlwind of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a ... time, his best combined score was a 710 in math and a 690 in verbal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... about a day to finish, but Paola’s army decimated the task in like two ... finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to ... papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my ... this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... opportunity to travel. Having grown up in a Christian home, I've heard about ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied ... ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... lay in wait. After a chorus of "joyeux anniversaire", which ended on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024