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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off, Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking ... move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... went to Chameleon on a special day when walk-ins were allowed (normally ... ; the parental disapproval honestly kind of added to the whole experience

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... should have been sleeping. 1) Honing my crepe-making skills. I recently ... then making a giant stuffed horse head...or two. Mid-March was one of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  side of life. Still clinging to 6-3, time will tell which I choose or whether I double major or not.      5.111- Principles of Chemical Science ... .012/18.014/18.022/18.024 in that it's mainly for folks who love challenging themselves or would

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  -- early action (November 1 deadline) or regular action (January 1 deadline ... recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from ... weeks away, or still months away, please have these conversations now or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  return at approximately 1-2 PM on Sunday. Everyone is invited to ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM. Please let me know if you would like to come or at least be included on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... ; can't be stressing about working out. I'll start tomorrow. On Jan 7, it ... . Believe it or not, there was a time 2013 was still fresh as that p-set so

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well ... on a 7.012 pset. Alex '08 (recently elected Burton Conner treasurer ... . (Yes, this was all in one day. Except for the skiing part, which happened

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far future, or people who time-travelled from a year before 2024: "Aura points ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  Today is Reg Day, i.e. Registration Day, when MIT students make ... first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... help get them ready to start blogging. But first! The last two weeks or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  an unseasonably cold and rainy June day, I graduated from MIT, with my ... rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media ... the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  part-timing or trying out the freelance lifestyle, but the idea had ... . When I first came to America in 2000, I literally sat in my room all day ... day-in and day-out. I also watched the show ZOOM religiously. (Does

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  got in them, and whether they were honors or not. I became proficient at ... Stanford app until after the MIT decision (5 days before it was due) was ... all, or none of these things. Perhaps your college application process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  facebook-stalking (ah, the wonders of modern technology). A lot of people ... second semester, or you'll become best friends and laugh about how you ... person you were temped with), meet people in your living group or your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Sunday in the winter at 7 AM, so there were almost no pedestrians or other ... several reasons, such as: I was too busy with classes to spend a day at ... had a permanent 5-day weekend, and I realized I could pay a driving

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  eternity of restless, test-less days. I woke up at 7 AM. A marvelous savoring ... notice, or that my handwriting had changed into an approximation of Cyrillic by that point, both of which are entirely probable.) The day after

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  that weekend. Why? I spent all day Saturday watching an intense ... . There are over 1,000 high school teams nationwide that compete in FIRST ... extra day after classes ended for spring break just to go to the Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . A voice narration begins. I attribute many feelings to love or to hate ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... something. What that feeling is, or even what precisely that something is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you're having fun. More photos of the rest of the day coming soon.

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  . Today is the first day of IAP, and I attended my first French 1 class. The ... other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I ... while newly a visitor. I spent a lot of time pre-MIT longing for my days

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006