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  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  , the bridge connecting MIT to Boston is called the Harvard Bridge; it ... much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like ... to MIT you will have the opportunity to go to Senior Ball, which was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  ceremonies, the Bloggers listed the Top 10ish Reasons to come to MIT. I had ... Research Opportunities Program and allows MIT undergrads to get research experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still ... reply back has been, "I don't know either." This is an unprecedented

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans across the world. And of course, MIT has more than its fair share of HP geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  together and maybe write some new carols. mitBEEF is a club dedicated to educating the MIT community about beef. (Note: this is a club event, not a ... real MIT students doing their own differential equations homework. Very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... said, I went into MIT without a concrete idea of what exactly I was ... college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  sometimes feel like MIT is just another institution telling me, either ... time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  awesome people I hope never regret choosing MIT, or our hall. Although you ... year because every week is an endless parade of job applications and ... people looking for jobz like me. Unfortunately, MIT classes have some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... registrar’s academic calendar) (life has its own messy timeline, which is ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  from THE SCHOOL YEAR is that my calendar looks blissfully white and empty ... with MIT life. It has to do with the non-MIT life: the pre-MIT life, the between-MIT-semesters life, the free time commodity. Here's how I spent it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is: https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  grants me a rare solitude in my suite kitchen. The counter is clear, all four stove burners are available, and no one else is using the sink. At ... everyone is still asleep. The morning is so empty that it sometimes feels

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... MIT and traveled to Japan." "That's good! But... why did you go to Japan ... opinions about Japan. "In the international age that is the present, why are

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  all that is metaphorical, it's safe to say that I've updated you on my ... I feel like doing is sitting back for a bit and letting it soak in. I ... , super-excited about coming to MIT, it's for a reason. There's seriously an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much ... homework is so, so time-consuming. Chem and Calc have problem sets due each ... mind staring at multiple pages of scientific jargon. My HASS is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  .) Repeat. Or not. Whatever. 6.) Decorate! Observe! This is us making hand ... without looking: Happy Jonathan (07) and Mary (our GRT): Something is ... the food unveiling. Mike (08) is excited about Thanksgiving: First

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we ... with that? It is true that we have not utilized the waitlist in the past three years. It is hard to know beforehand exactly how many students will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  in Mammalian Biology) class that the MIT biology program is doing away ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  " - answer email, be attentive to the MIT forum on CC, etc. To me, this is ... reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading ... which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005