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• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  conductors can barely remember people by the end of the day. "I also talked to ... the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams showcase June 9th. Not that my school was ... for the day: when there's a problem, go right to the source, which in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  challenging. I clambered over rocks, roots, hills and mountains for 20-30 miles every day. It rained, well, probably just as often as in other parts of ... adventures with me. With time alone, enough is enough, and hiking all of June

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  to register for PBIE happens to be June 28th; I happened to be making my Independence day plans at 7:30 pm on July 3rd. Someone once told me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... announce Regular Action decisions on Pi Day every year. But, what exactly does Pi Day look like at MIT? Do students eat pie? Do people recite the

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  -abroad and internship-abroad) opportunities at MIT. 5:30pm-7:15pm Minority ... disappoints. 7:30pm–8:45pm Official Welcome for Parents. Perhaps one of the more important things to show up for. ;-) Friday 9:00am-10:30am

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Registration Day, which is always a Monday. Although classes don't start until Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... Day is the day where pretty much everyone has to meet with their advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  classes (recitations, lectures, labs) you have every day. Then, for each ... throughout the week and 7 times to pee--once after my last class every day, and ... about 30 students. And as it turns out, poetry takes many forms. We've so

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into ... , considering that many high schools start around 7-7:30 AM?) After class, I went ... "rag-out". Whatever.) and reading today's Tech (today's The Tech?), I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  a series of applications, and today I feel that going through so many ... sugar and caffeine to get me through the day left me exhausted at night ... pretty clear from the get-go that spending all day staring at a screen was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be ... like to play. I thought I'd make a little post today about the music and ... ) New Year's Day (Taylor Swift) Melodrama (Lorde album) This was the very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  11.30 pm I will feel a little lost and a little lonely and very far ... scriptum (written Labour Day weekend) Now it’s a week later, and I’m reading

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  being in lab. You see, I am taking Project Lab, this 30-unit class (normal classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours ... consistently over 30 hours per week running assays and getting results. I used to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  am Iron Man. 2. MIT Isn’t all happy days and sprinkles. 3. MIT kids are ... .  You might be having a bad day, or you could be having a great day.  It could even be your birthday today, in which case HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  Truth is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I graduated. i'll still be here for a year tho because i'm getting my master's

  

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  quarterfinals against Clark, we win 6-0. Two days later is the semifinals, where ... the whole season: Babson. With the first warm day in a while, the sun shining, and a score to settle, it is the perfect day for soccer. We start

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  software that you can use for a free 30-day trial or buy for about ~$25 ... enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day ... was $100 sent via PayPal the day right after the contest ended. Woo

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  noticed: the class was already full. 25 +/- 3 students sat or lay on yoga ... day of PE classes, and managed to stumble along, wondering why she hadn ... the people in this room-" since there were fewer than 30 people in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  single course 2 class starts at either 9:00 or 9:30 for all four years of ... class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island, meaning I have to catch the 6:25 AM commuter rail to get there. Of course

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  . Third test? 10/30, 1.5 standard deviations below. Third test? 9.5/20, half ... final. I locked myself away for entire days to study, but there was just SO MUCH to study. Oh, wait, quick sidetrack. On the first day of finals

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have ... wrote: "For the Jan SAT test - do you recommend taking the SATIIs again

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005