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  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  results of the initial summer housing lottery online. The good news is that ... fast. By some deadline, you're required to do one of two things online ... people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... guests are permitted in Institute Housing with the advance permission of all students of the room/suite in which the guest is staying. The host

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... version of this class, [annotation note="Writing and Experience: Reading and ... had never learned about this form of writing structurally, and man was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... me. – Felix"]new crop of bloggers.[/annotation] As I was combing ... note="more like sporadic brain dump of sounds but follow me on Spotify

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  --principles of microeconomics, corporate financial accounting, people and ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of ... For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  and let them roll through my mind. All of my dreams have come true. Have ... that will appear or disappear because of what MIT tells you on Thursday. Regardless of your admissions decision, you will continue to be the good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  , anthropology, psychology and economics shape this account of how strange the ... : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  signed up for a couple online tutoring sites and, after a few weeks of ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  of the material via the MITx platform (which acted as a de facto online ... of the MITx online platform (I find short videos interspersed with ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  already somewhat lower than the number of hours I had to be in class, online ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid ... ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... this fall, not because of administration (who is actually doing a pretty

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  taking my keys out of my pocket and looking at my recently ... of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red ... picture of black-colored beaver swimming gracefully through water

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  an online application and get some letters of recommendation, too. 4 ... Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be ... of things that make me happy. Because knowing how much I spend, lets

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018