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• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  whether or not to apply to MIT, or whether or not to come to MIT after you get accepted, you can come stay with an MIT student and we'll show you ... it's absolutely possible to find the right one for you (mine is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  time. There's a lot less transience. Students truly feel that MIT is ... housemaster will be chosen by a committee, which is comprised of other ... . Whoever the new housemaster is, I'm only going to have to live with him or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  that everyone else is getting placed in.  MIT is different from other ... before classes start, MIT opencourseware is an amazing resource! The other ... .012 and 8.022 are good for showing what course 8 is like at MIT. 8.01 and 8

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... some point. For many, it comes first semester. This is why MIT provides ... semester. This is why MIT provides [annotation note="ABC/NR = ABC/No Record

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  summer is very different from MIT during the school year. CPW rocks. A lot ... struggling to make a decision, CPW is a great chance to learn a lot about MIT ... W said: Hmmm...getting rejected at MIT is tough, especially when

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  in a place as unusual as wonderful as MIT is that you lose perspective ... like this. When it's wet, warm, and kind of dark, when the forecast is ... being completely okay is pretty recent. The last few months were rough. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  because MIT is such a great school. "When we were deciding where to go to ... -valedictorians set for MIT Originally posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009 by Adam Freeman ... mom, Elise Burfield, is one person who has no person telling the two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I ... apparently Jax Kirtley is, and since their photos are on the Wild Party photo ... any pictures of the play, which is really sad because one of my friend

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  "mind and hand", is the motto on the MIT seal. "Mens sana in corpore sano ... It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  's often harder for MIT undergrads to get into the MIT program than it is for ... talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  at MIT realize that a zombie invasion is a serious threat, one that shouldn't be taken lightly. MIT, although likely concerned about our safety ... enough, sitting in the lobby . . . Students of MIT and CPW prefrosh, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day but it is still cold worked at a big place where people watch games on ... friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  . so you're diseased. Being sick at MIT is no fun. Along with the ... liters of water -- for the entirety of finals week. S^3, which is really ... you crazy? There's no good time to get sick!" But there really is. Allow

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is ... of 6:08 PM." Not only that, this system is apparently patent pending. Does anyone else find this sort of weird, or is it just me? God bless

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually ... Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal ... specifically. But it's college and they say this is when you're supposed to ... make letters display, and his goal is to make a display board out of an

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  -- because one of them is an MIT grad and because Adam and Malox like to sing ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  them. What you should steep yourself in is the ignorance, in what we don't know. What is fascinating about science is to define the questions ... teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  . I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is ... . So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen-year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006