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• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  job involves cleaning up poop in monkey cages. Desk is actually a pretty ... AWESOME CATEGORIES SITE I would take the time to write up an actual job ... 'd always just hang up on people who asked me to transfer their call. Then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  paper ridiculous. I ended up passionately hating Joyce Carol Oates for ... hike up there. What they also have is a monument marking the highest ... few sights in London. OH WAIT! I also came up with another commercial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  out of the way without your 'bad' grades showing up on your transcript ... textbook like crazy and thought that I could never catch up with the rest of ... yourself in this situation, don't fear! You will catch up, and maybe even do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  cleaner than the Charles, I really miss the 17 miles of running paths set up ... world in my UROP, where I take ground-up turkey carcasses and put them in ... 's got the HPLC back up and running and that we can start collecting data

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question ... slides -- when you shake up a water/protein solution (for example, by ... 've been keeping up with the financial aid information that you've been sent

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  and tell me that I should have contacted him, because I only ended up ... liked to paint tangled masses of naked people getting sucked up to heaven ... to bring them up! Ruth -- Well, I'm limited somewhat by the fact that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  happens when you get old.) It's totally up to you -- there are computers of ... and fast, I suppose, but otherwise it's really up to your personal ... a tendency to mean "close but expensive". There's also one up in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  while I'm up there and the Emerson scholarship still doesn't include MTG ... probably adds up to about one extra class worth of time for you, which isn ... have to get there by 4 PM to pick one up. With a bike, this is no problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on ... let you catch up to them. It sort of depends how invested you were in ... soul were instead in constant line with the passions that got you up in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  difficult. Seriously, I couldn't pass up this place, and I'll tell you why ... to join my high school's paper. So, I showed up to the first meeting of ... but AWESOME. So that brings up another point. Yes, the winters are cold

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO TOO FAR! They may get freaked out if your IM pops up and your best ... though they won't clean their rooms, stay up too late and drink way too

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  shook my hand and said (I am not even making this up), "I saw in your ... up doing the molecular/cellular track, even though I had very little ... for my email address. It's up there in the blog banner, and anyone is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to ... , and all the water boiled off. The beaker heated up and cracked, causing ... who ends up at MIT next year, I'll still be around! EDIT: (for people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  Concerned Parent brought up an issue in Ben's blog (about halfway ... . I don't understand why colleges don't offer up more triples. Yes, it will be cramped. However, offering this up in advance gives people the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  prepositional phrases are always nice too. When I Grow Up When I grow up, I will ... will cook only main dishes. This is what I plan to do when I grow up. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  up to Professor Tester's office at 12 PM, all ready to meet with him ... with their parents or their friends' parents, so Sam's Mom came up to ... Blue Ribbon BBQ--though she's usually up for walking, Sam's Mom was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  - whether or not you take it is up to you My Card: The Eight of Cups [caption ... . Everything was a learning experience; the world had just opened up for me in a ... ability to follow up that discovery with action. Besides, the universe told

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  been like that. But recently, I decided to round up a few small ... from a flea market in Nashville. They are scratched up from when I used ... they hold up forever.  Cards and coins from Spain. Easily one of the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  break it up into chunks, with this one being narratively unstructured and ... people understand it. And then, I looked up, and ten years had gone by ... when I got my paycheck was start saving up a "walk-away" fund so I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque ... life. You have to hike about 10 minutes up a cobblestone path and are ... ,000 steps, so we wrapped up slightly faster than expected to go eat and pass

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025