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  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... ramen noodle structure"), "Card Throwing," "How to Grow Hair ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  pictures, so I guess I'll start to "show, not tell." (Pwahaha. How many of ... Cooper and decided to take a picture with it. How prefrosh of us, right ... one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  something work related, i send an email to my work account. or, how i'm not ... hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... went to class with them, worked on problem sets and projects with them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up, and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  actually care about me or did you just read the book How to Win Friends and ... month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  that view and am hard to realign. It's a fact of who I am and how I was ... to be, how do I know “who I’m not?” If you can’t tell, this was a very ... first came to [insert college here], I didn’t think frat/sorority life was

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you’ve always wanted to learn, hang out with friends, or do research in the lab ... guitar, basket of food, and blanket), and I was pretty envious. I chose to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We ... components, the deadlines, what makes an applicant "competitive," how we make

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  research pursuits. ICE is unable to offer the most basic answers about how ... students on F-1 visas to take a full online course load this fall if they are living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  ), carrier pidgeon, smoke signals, etc (though, I don't know how to read smoke ... active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia' to Empower Problem Solvers" was among them! I owe that victory to you

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM ... try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... :30 PM I grabbed my skates headed over to the Fenway movie theater. It was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  . Bryan, what are you doing today? I'm going to GRAD SCHOOL! I surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... had a $30 payout, I decided to be a high-roller and take a cab to the

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early action telethon! 54 MIT students total came to chill out and check up on how you guys are doing by calling all 390 of the early admits (sometimes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  While we are still waiting to hear from everyone, and hence it is too early to know anything about the waitlist, the Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a movie derail me from that. I was thinking about how no colleges ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004