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  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then part of her head exploded because she couldn't figure out how I, and only

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is; they ask how your week is. That's because most MIT students take this ... work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  breaths, and it's been.. really nice. That doesn't mean I've forgotten about ... "ra-ta-too-ee". Learn it! Anyway, I promise there'll be more shortly. How're your summers treating you?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I hate finals week. I'm glad it only happens twice a year. Also, my camera ... pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the chunks go in the radial direction when it crashes to the ground? Answer

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  titled “I am not Zorn’s Lemma”, and it made this play on how you can count ... "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It’s ... walang hanggan, “no end”. But it sounds so cool, awanggan, the way those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... 's mattress from her room in EC, but when i saw how decrepit it was, i decided ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  broke up with her by post-it, or the time that Miranda breaks it off with ... "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in ... looking back at the time when it was makes me go "Egggghhhhhh." It's like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  and without battery life, so it was essentially never used. DESKTOP ... it thus became my third arm. It goes with me everywhere, and I use it ... software that is just computationally intensive, and it's not the best idea

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... last place" kind of deal didn't jibe with me. And I guess it didn't jibe ... how my academic life would be like died out within maybe 3 semesters of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  explain your project, what you did, how you did it, and why you enjoyed it ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... , images, and video to record it. In total, all video elements must be less

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... , sometimes the match is perfect, but more often it's just pretty good, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... dating, sometimes the match is perfect, but more often it's just pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  certification exam on Saturday. It was, um, ok. I guess. I find out how I did in ... to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or... ? The TV is mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , you may not realize how weird it is for upperclassmen to want to date ... about how problematic things were, but I'll leave it at this: I'm finally ... Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  brief, and it is the one MIT will continue to make, for as long as ... 's magnificently global, absolutely American community pursues its mission of service to the nation and the world.   I am also inspired by MIT's long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  most valuable aspect of DesignPlus for me has been how it’s introduced me ... as many of my other maker friends. It’s also how I got to know my first ... -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... learned about interfaces. Me: What are interfaces? Dora: It’s like an ... ’T KNOW. WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS? (Dora laughs) It’s just computer

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long ... Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn't sure, but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  . Its a long story. Ok, I need to get back to reading. I have a lot of ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get ... applications - and since we have so many to read, we often find it more efficient

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012