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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  -run program called TechBikes, which allows members (membership is free) to ... . She knew that I was on to her. In the last 20 minutes or so, while we ... lounge even raised an eyebrow. The hall is used to this sort of thing.

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... love acronyms) that is designed to give you a platform from which to ... asked me for one of the publications on my table. He proceeded to fold the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... courtesy of Toolever Of course the five screws on the sweep have to be old ... fellow tΞp to lean out of the second story window to see what's going on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  all the time. Or the pattern of the splatter paint on the walls of my ... of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  our GRTs or the members of a particular suite are given $15 to prepare ... break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... value of the study break a couple of weeks ago when I was working on this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  of which you get in May after you matriculate) and you're taken to your ... -mail-related features you're used to, but a lot of people aren't big fans of webmail. Its ... &T has step-by-step instructions here. Lesser known is how to use Gmail to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  of the extent to which people here are open to learning for the sake of ... into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with which they got rich, of course. You hear all kinds of stories about MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic, artistic, or anything else. However, we refer to the money given directly by
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to ... my placing of punctuation outside the quotation marks - to which I say, I subscribe to the British style, which is naturally the more correct

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could ... cacophonic calls of "Cocoa! Cocoa!" echo through East Campus. Or at least we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... complete a final written project. No prior knowledge of "Sex and the City" is ... stressed with descriptions of how the project was supposed to work, what

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

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  Organization) and focus part of her blogging on the work that MIT is doing ... having to actually vote, which was a really nice conclusion to the ... amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  're more likely to experience the drudge/grind of MIT, which really is ... , but there are very few ways to actually understand what MIT is like. One of those ways is to attend MIT. Another one of those ways is to visit

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... actually *got rid* of some things I wasn't using as I reorganized, which is a ... , which is kind of incredible -- I'll blog about this separately some other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  different way, I feel like I have time to write about it. I've been a part of ... opportunity I have to pitch an idea to an organization is an opportunity for me ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  of an MIT where students feel better-prepared to deal with failure ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  lot of other majors) on Pass/No Record, which is great because otherwise ... there’s no way to wiggle out of your eight HASS subjects.) This is all ... comfortable with, or one that you doubt will be of much relevance to you in your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  "]applying to jobs[/annotation] and [annotation note="which is really what i want ... life is getting a little too hard and i want to remind myself of all the ... : this is kind of dumb because i'm from new hampshire, but it was fun to go

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  , which is why I try not to play the Wiki Game on busier school days. It ... target of a hack is an abstract concept (e.g. bureaucracy or "political ... [/caption] The Wiki Game On top of that, I even found a site called The Wiki Game

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... bus during the day on Sunday and I need to go to campus and it is ... need a shoulder to cry on, someone to go with you for frozen yogurt, or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013