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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…

  

  -mail to the dorm telling them that barbar is, regrettably, out of paper ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... 't usually work on weekday afternoons: packages come in! And then you have to

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

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... him?) She wasn't much better - her words to me consisted of, "Don ... 'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more ... all of the links to wikipedia, that is effort and i am lazy and want to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  savory parts of my memory, I can recall those nights of crying to my mom on ... her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  to wander down to the Porter Room on Sunday morning and grab some of ... bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  , you are to bet your pronouns, or the letters of your name, or both. I ... IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  love it. It makes me feel like I'm on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" or ... 's way too long for me. Basically, this class is going to involve A LOT of ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  , they try to avoid seeking these out because they "know" which side is ... of what was handed to them. (Note: I'm not saying this is true of all ... understanding, and with knowledge that was handed to you instead of that which you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  current state of rocketry is comparable to throwing the airplane away every ... you had to take a broomstick falling out of the sky and catch it on your ... lot of things to get on top of (this will probably be the subject of a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see ... give on average $3 is evidence, some argue, for altruism (or non ... of giving up to $10 *or* stealing up to $10 from the other student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is ... may have heard of. Towards the end of the year, we also got a chance to ... writing and think it'd be great to improve my creative writing ability, or

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  's special issue on stress is anything to go by. (If you haven't read it yet ... of experience to go back on, and I can't reassure you about the next 3 ... to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an ... , which you spread on in a powder and then heat to melt into glass. It ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  class which is never not cool to me. This year, lectures are officially being recorded to be put on MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). Which means I need ... rather boring. I've been feeling like I'm on the brink of something bigger

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... head-on shot of my desk. It's the place that I store my most important

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  bit late to the OfflineTV train. OfflineTV is a group of content ... Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  . Tananya is the current head of MINCE. I started this organization to create ... impossible to put a finger on. I first hit something during the fall of my ... project is analogous to integrating a pulse function, or a right

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on ... my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school. Princeton has 4,600 undergrads, which is only slightly more than MIT's 4

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot the grid point on the map and plan the best way to attack. You brief ... come across an open area, which you saw on the map and devised a plan for

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011