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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great ... with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... suitemate at the dinnerware class (i.e. which fork to use, is my bread plate to my left or right, etc.). In the photo, Mitra is showing off the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... committing to the grill or [annotation note="The station with 'regular' hot

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a ... corresponded to a B. Which just goes to show you that much of what you know

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  throughout the day in case one of you goes to sleep early or something like ... other was when I went to play with foam swords on the rooftop of Random ... other students are up to, the Closing is a lot of fun. And both events do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  interdisciplinary, which is one reason it appeals to me). I think that at another ... , which, believe me, has a long-term impact on your life. It is much more ... moving to another room on your hall/entry or within your building... or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes ... presentation of the material. I did need to lecture for some of the time, which

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on ... maximizes the time you spend on problems, which is, surprise, what the exams

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  year. But, regardless of how vague the role is, or how any person chooses to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on ... reasons, and I was responding to an email on my phone at the end of a busy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  to use. There's even a quartic formula, which is even huger and ... said is true regardless of which people are friends with which other ... the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine ... blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass him, but the picture is on my parents' camera.) We went to Disneyland on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  is in the West Lounge on the second floor of the Student Center (which ... , do we sleep on the floor of our host's dorm, or are we actually getting ... pretty much ask anybody how to get to the Student Center (which is where

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  Galveston, which is the Island south of Houston. We went to Moody Gardens and ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... simultaneously commented "ew." So if you choose to keep the live hawk-cam open on ... addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  great time to register for the January administration of the tests, which ... If you are applying to MIT this year, here's an update on what you ... 10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people getting New Year’s tattoos. It’s called Sacred Art, on 4th Avenue, which is ... how to apply those things to life. We moved to my room, which is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... UROPs), to enjoy the multitude of craziness that goes on on campus (see ... backpack across Europe in 4 weeks, which is what one of my friends is doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third ... let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009