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  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  . I'm a big fan of the "testimonials" section and even wrote my own, but ... conner...my god, is she a beauty. from b to shining c, burton conner offers ... freaking happy. I love that I'm so attached to my dorm community despite

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C ... year for freshman hall rush, I decided to beautify my room by letting the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... view from my seat in the last row, and then some of us in front of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... 't want to bring the nice bicycle I had at home, which my grandparents had given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  , except that it starts with a strategic and misleading adverb. One of my ... bafflement appeared as I handed my boarding pass and state-issued photo ID to ... either obvious or I should ignore it. Quoth the BPAFOSIPIDC, peering at my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the ... entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time--building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test, pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  Lin wrote: "I recently got my SAT I results back (760 maths 740 reading and 680! writing). I was wondering if it would help my application if I ... that my school is not very active in these areas. For example, I only

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... anyway. Sometimes even doing it well. It’s my addiction, every semester telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... and I'm reprising my role this year for the class of 2025, BUT WITH ... along with me! Upgrade two here's my "I had no idea what I was doing

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM ... the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous ... become my second home because as one of the System Integrators on this team, it's my responsibitlity to help organize and guide our team to win make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... App – and our application is only available at MyMIT. Here are a ... create a separate recommendations account for this, in addition to your My

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to ... the dates were during my spring break, said "heck yeah," and applied ... representatives My group consists of myself, a PhD student from Georgia, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  educate myself about anything that might be relevant to my 12-year-old self ... . Disillusioned and concerned for my lip health, I started looking for other sources ... currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  or call us again after Monday morning, November 26 (I will do my best ... this holiday. If you are an Early Action applicant and your My ... MyMIT tracking shows a missing component, please be patient as we are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... speaking, my sentences were already loopy, my hand wavering between various ... ’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012