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• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  .621) to then complete the following semester (16.622). In a nutshell, my ... good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the ... conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  you burn it out You've got so much to do And only so many hours in a day ... : attaching a fun, new piece of media in every email sign-off. It was a joy ... ; some music magic: [Verse 1] Do you believe in magic in a young girl

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... impressive and inspiring and wonderful, etc. In the past few days, a few ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... them just to see what happens, but not in a dangerous way." Really, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... was likely to empty out during Spring Break so a pillow fight could help

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... is a student I first met when he came to an MIT information session in ... live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  'll avoid using foundation to maintain my skin, but experiment a bit more with ... that a bit in this first semester of college, but I really want 2020 to ... gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out of meat?  Toss a watermelon back and forth in some sort of deranged ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  a woman listened to 351,281 of Taylor Swift this year, placing her in ... first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  more questions, here is a quick FAQ to provide some more answers. I hope it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We ... 're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... finals week to working a 7am-4pm engineering internship, spending hours ... person.  I really enjoy having a nice large desk to show off my cat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... used to watch Smurfs as a child; I even had the video game on Atari. OK ... Now everyone raise your hands if you used to watch Saturday morning

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  people are used to speaking English at least in a tourism setting. Andorra ... Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... , economics, and professional needs all play a role in the languages people use

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  to find a post-doc (two-ish year full-time research positions) which ... fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate ... intended to support a student in a full-time course of study." In other words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  animals tend to travel in a certain direction, facing forward when doing so ... to a three-legged animal because it uses its tail. However, its tail is ... : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . It was freeing, in a way, to be able to seek new dreams, create new ... commit to in the cup holder next to me. At last, I was able to open a ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... find a better answer to this question the next time I run into one of my ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but ... went to Little Tokyo and The Last Bookstore with a friend who was also in ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  rolls in in February, and I think we'll be ready to take it on--as a class ... Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015