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• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... about life here: Hard work pays off. It really does. Things don't just ... drink from that firehose and you get it done. I can say that this semester

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class ... . When I took Spanish in high school, it was 50-minutes of class, and then

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  wonder how long that will last. Though I remember that the first time I was ... column earlier today. One of whom I don't think I've ever met before. Does ... you don't know them? It's a very odd feeling. I'm still at the point

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  . it took a long process of me conquering parts of my ego and becoming ... dialectic: changing your mind twice does not indicate regression, it indicates ... are able to reject it. it is like how neoclassicism is not the same as

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  MIT—and the world beyond it.    And that’s the story of how @wide ... the question—the question is,  How does one become WIDE?  At first, I ... what does it mean to be WIDE?  “Wide Tim”, perhaps, isn’t just wide! I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  , but it does keep our attention. And it makes for a good blog entry ... ) "Hey! How's it going! I'm Jeremy. Just FYI." (talking about the Elmo ... ...whatever, right?" "This feels better though, does it not?" "Here I'm just using

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  ...I struggle. But I constantly amaze myself at how I manage to pull it off anyway ... to me? Does it accurately reflect me? Does it convey everything ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  how many girls applied early, though.) But it doesn't matter that you're a girl! Really, it doesn't! MIT does have a near-even gender ratio ... , since this one is getting entirely too long. Admit it. It is. I'd say you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  ’m out of place. It’s hard to believe that it could all feel so different just a few night later, but it does. The campus may not have changed at ... -printed trinkets. Cards and letters. A gift from a friend. It fills up, but not

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A tradition that needed no reason or explanation, it simply was. And I was both

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  . And both times, it was wonderful. Two (very long) years apart, after a ... messiness level of my room is surprisingly high considering how much it annoys ... , it's OK. But it does bring me joy.) [carousel image1="72483" image2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any ... know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  pursuit comes from a genuine desire to explore the world? and how much of it ... i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  all-you-can-eat for every meal; how large is a one-meal kit? Is it ... in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as ... new Pilot 2021 optional meal kit plan. The appendix also compares it to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT ... sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  in Somerville does not mean that it does not also exist in Cambridge ... trivial." Which it was. It just took a long time. Once I got to the ... reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  , no matter how frustrating it is! Questions To Start: How big is your ... moving in? How long will your lease be? If you're finding something for ... significantly. Calling people stresses me out, but man, does it get the job done

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I ... classes, my dorm and my frat, and it seems like I haven’t really seen much of anything else. I’m not jaded though—far from it. Classes this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time ... ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 fine, so I figured there'd be no harm in doing it tonight. A few moments

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  you want to get into and how long the waitlist is). Also, once you get ... on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA ... , Clockwork Orange, Saving Private Ryan, Best in Show.) It was a wonderful way

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006