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  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... . My suitcase is unpacked-in fact I haven't even brought it down from the ... entrance to Bush Intercontinental, my mom and I settle down in the terminal

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  what he says . . .twice. Woo-hoo! Here we go, we're in 26-100 and Ben is ... speech. He's now giving a brief history lesson of MIT. In 1861 MIT was ... 1865. It wasn't in Cambridge at first, it started right across the river

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... , froshlings. You. You'll all be here in two weeks. Your friends at other ... yet and you're sitting around wondering what in the world a Math

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by Kevin: Kevin said: what does the admissions office look for in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did ... . Next year I'll be taking smaller, specialized classes in the major I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before ... just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that ... kicked off campus in March. With all the meetings that were scheduled, I ... held at MIT in December, so we talked about options for making classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... feature calm task-based game Minecraft - got a project in the works :o ... friends in the Sims T_T Stardew Valley - super relaxing farming-based game

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  increasing exponentially in MA every day (not hyperbole: the numbers literally ... events helped prevent its spread. In a situation like this, even the "best ... competitions that are typically held in spring; ring delivery; [annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time ... specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  made were in the sections i choreographed (the irony…). my parents really ... bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon—in ... class and dropped web.lab.   so everything worked out in the end! i ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a ... one, but us. We did it for *art*.  In eighth grade, we had an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January ... time to tag people in memes anymore??? or to even look at memes??? i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the ... left insignificant in face of one final four-digit score. Scores that now ... ladder. Good GPA. Good test scores. Good extracurriculars. Throw in good

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... community - In both 6.034 and 6.803, he would either start the class with an ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress ... is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from ... end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... incredibly well. The process for each climb was simple: start in the basement ... rise-and-fall sequences in Antonio's heart rate data corresponded exactly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... halls. Google pulled a very EC stunt in setting up a roller coaster inside

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019