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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away ... every kind of place. This whole college admissions game is so contrived

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... sets a precedent for letting them know that they can visit me. ask my friends for advice. they are smart people and often know what to do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . 1)  Yup, still skydiving :) This picture got me famous on Reddit for ... top of my game.  Maybe that's good, maybe it's a sign that I'm slowly

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  using them for therapy and squishing them or putting them in funny places ... seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the underclassmen! They spent hours and hours and days making us a Tetazoo card game

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  ended up building a 3-D twister game, some huge speakers, a hammock for ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... project. Almost immediately, I was admonished for not wearing close

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and ... goals are entered into weekly drawings for prizes. Summer is just one ... Ate the Whole Thing.” Week 1’s competition was for the Best Team name

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for ... -- alums come back and recruit for their employers; everyone looks better ... -- I have been here exactly twice, junior year for a Clay Aiken concert

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  student that likes to build things for fun, enjoys racing, or wants to learn ... "hacker" culture, these guys designed the very first computer game, Spacewar ... own shops. Design for Change: DfC does science and engineering for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  trip to Shea Stadium for my first Met game all season (!!!), and then it ... insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for ... get to be awesome and actually save lives. For real. I know, I know, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the ... find Chemistry in the C's rather than the F's -- for five, the chemistry department number. Who needs sleep? Me!) First, about the football game on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to ... for EA will be extended to accommodate things. Also, Grommit (where ... ") definitely works. Note that for some of these lists, we do only ask for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one-and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to ... teaching at a high school for MISTI Global Teaching Labs, and traveled around ... Champs title Visited Vancouver with my mom Day tripped to Portland for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... , that is precisely why I paid money to have holes put in my body. And then ... and relaxing music. We picked out our studs for the next eight weeks and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or ... who want to make a lot of money go into the financial sector, people who ... would tell my freshman self to explore more and don't be rigid for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  towards MIT, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Killian Court had been ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... on the seal playfully arguing about the merits of theory vs. practice

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  are restrictions that are unnecessary for you (I want to crotchet!!) and ... ; 4. The food is terrible   5. So bored. Bring art to play with ... again, or at least for a very very very long time. Also, now I'm terrified

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  efficiently. Power Electronics is, for better or for worse, about as time ... play music from my laptop through a lab speaker! Now that I've finished ... lab -- how exciting! I've also been working on assignments for my other

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm ... techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force ... continua: equations of motion useful for porous, hydrated biological tissues

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... semester I took five classes, which was a first for me. 6

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023