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• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  , I only do this for sketchy- or imposing-looking people. Life's too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  where you want to spend the next 4 years of your life. Go to the place

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  given my new ideas about what I want to do with my life, it may or may not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda, after Princess Zelda. You know, from the Nintendo games. Bryan just did an entry on things to look out for in…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my “entries-on-request” – as you probably remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT-related topics to write about. Today’s…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  still life painted by Jan Brueghel, but forgot to take a picture of it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  My weekend It’s been a somewhat busy two not-school days. Yesterday I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  life or a mix of both? What about the professors? Are they accessible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered them in a comment. Be fruitful and check it out. Another question you might have, probably if…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  to be a better teacher. I will relate life to teaching to help the kids

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? “The Canticle of Freedom,” written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever wrote that was commissioned by a university.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  applicant prioritizes some real balance in his/her life. Students who respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  negatives on your application as you can. But don't decide that your life is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like Matt does! And I’m starting to get more comments in general – I guess my blog…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  the modern city relate to its social life. Explores six conditions of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It’s almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  reached such a milestone in my life and terrified to be completely on my own ... to student life was that I wouldn’t be able to continue pursuing the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

    One warm night last summer, my roommate Penny ‘24 and I were walking back to our apartment from our friend Jess’s dinner party. Trees cast sharp shadows across the…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021