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  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  trip to Zambia had seen this show and quoted it nonstop. I had never seen an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  narratives of how it reflects your character and personality, and how you would ... typo last fall... oops. Print it out to see how it looks on paper, and ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ever: Delete your Public folder. Even if you try and fix it two minutes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  Wow. I've had an intense week. And it's only Wednesday. Now, finally ... 'm Kimd when it comes to admissions blogging, since there's another Kim. As ... of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  from UCLA (go Bruins!) visited last week, and couldn't believe how warm and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning ... a limitless light behind it. I kept stalling out. "Chill OUT," Rob ordered me, over and over. It's the same thing David Carr said to me a year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... marks and such in plain text, and this makes me so, so happy. Umm...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a ... First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after ... , and industry. His habits are nocturnal. He does his best work in the ... appointed its own Ring Committee to uphold these time-honored traditions. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  amazing coffee machine that does everything from hot chocolate to a damn ... , number 15, is possibly the most important thing I will miss. It's the people that you meet that make the wealth of life. It's this group of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  at MIT doesn't mean shutting other opportunities out, but it does mean ... commitment wasn't worth it. So it's a personal choice. Let's take a look at the ... and disciplined during the semesters. It's worth mentioning that the MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... , humanities, math (whatever, basically, though it makes it more difficult. I ... .091 (Solid-State Chemistry), though it's not recommended because the 5.11-s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author ... . College changed me to be the person I always was. It also revealed just how ... How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  through the ninja’s sword (right) and breaks it in half. then the samurai ... were too dull. he goes on to talk about how people who stay true to their ... allow themselves to drift into nihilism lose their edge it shouldn’t come

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a ... School Report, which does include a letter that they write about you, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  learned this weekend is like this stunt, except that the flyer does a back ... wrapped up within the next few months so we can write it up for publication

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... it way too seriously, but a lot of my friends have recommended it so i’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT’s Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very ... .    Now it’s my turn to inspire you with our random music tastes ... this year's. You just did it so well, I didn't see any reason to improve

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023