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  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... Catherine: we shall see who will roflstomp whom! Or, so scholars believe. In ... certainly none of them were alive in 1120 A.D. The above situation was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  certain chaotic charm to it, don't you think?  [carousel image1 ... , and started taking the test last year. Now, we have a few days before ... our tbd GRE scores. Maybe we can take a gap year worst case? Every day

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  was wearing a sort-of suit because it was the first day of my internship ... wishes me a good day and departs. I am taken after all--betrothed to my ... complain about their day to someone, longboarders heading toward the hilly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and ... you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... you feel since they were asking those same questions just a year or so

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  options over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and ... you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  day. Have questions regarding your student's financial aid package or ... the most. With hundreds of options over the few days, there are lots of ... student each day (perhaps the President's Welcome on Friday and the Closing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  options over the few days, there are lots of things to choose from and ... you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... questions just a year or so ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  Last Tuesday was a big day for MIT's class of 2019. After two years of waiting, we finally got our class rings! The brass rat isn't just ... more pictures of the event, check out the Facebook page!

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  indeed la dolce vita. 12 days without thinking about school, work, or exams ... week after MIT's. But, I ended up taking an additional 2.5 days off and ... Imperial College, London — in Italy for 5 days. We adventured around Rome and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  to wrap your collective heads around: 1) MIT students really like to ... extracurricular activity or two, plus a UROP, and still graduate on time and happy ... .) Unless you are a total academic rockstar and/or you do not need sleep, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes ... the US. Addis Ababa doesn’t have a lot of tools and parts readily or ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  , and from the age of thirteen, I've more or less been by myself all day ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people ... he worked all day, a hired nanny moved into our home to take care of me

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  or other. 2:05 PM It is the second day of Bad Ideas, the weekend that ... carnivorous appetite. 1:00 PM I've gained entrance to the club, and can ... victory. 1:55 PM I bundle up and continue along my irreversible temporal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  meaning either alums who hang around, or defunct electronic hardware) and ... , abbreviation or acronym), giving campaign advice and showing up to watch my ... 's VP! Small world, right? Eventually, I went down to 1st East to check

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Courseroad and Firehose have added so much value to current students ... ," or "MITAdmissions Beta," or possibly "MITAdmissions, but ... that could be embedded in our new site (or, depending on what's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  's Student Support Services asking 1) about my "wellness check and 2) if they ... and 6.009 is dead (I have no more assignments or grades to be inputted ... . But I didn't really know if that was healthy, or if there was a purpose

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  us. What we (or mainly I) weren't okay with was the fact that there's no warm water in the sink or any hooks to hang and dry your towels or ... for the day, we took a quick run to Target and bought all our kitchen

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  're getting one or two dozen buckets of mail every day. I have built a small ... day. Opening, identifying, processing, and filing these documents is ... things that arrive today to not appear on the tracker for another week or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  span of two or so days. Needless to say, it was stressful. New problems ... I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  cleaner, 50 yoyos"]7[/annotation] #1 favorite class at MIT: Design and ... Calc 1 and 2, cramming the classes into a semester + IAP. Things I ... tough, but just wait until you take a language class. You meet four days a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025