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  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  Family of Bloogyness this year. 60 entered. 7 survived the The Blogger ... , debating the implications of each choice, exploring hypothetical alternatives and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... line welcomes runners home, under the protective wing of the Boston Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always sort of fascinating when something you’ve been taking for granted turns ... ’s an entire website moderating the rental and upkeep of Tim. If you want

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough ... Scholars outside of the Metropolitan Opera     ...and before ... the Metropolitan Opera and explored the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  proper base of training shifts your perspective of what's possible.   ... feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having ... of school is to "teach you material."  Tight, clustered deadlines don

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston ... , interactive labs (including navigating campus in a wheelchair), and lots of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar ... culture, you’re probably aware that the halls of our dorms are covered with ... decorate the dorm with the kinds of absurdities/obscenities that you’ll come

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... that reminds you of home. Your dorm is your new home for the next eight

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  This summer my friends (who are around, instead of doing cool internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random opportunities around Boston and MIT campus. A lot of these adventures start

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La ... our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... principles of design: rhythm, scale, proportion. We watched the Eames Classic

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my train of thought. Finishing it now. Pretend you are reading this on ... -Cyberespionage -Deaths of Mathematicians -Cetacean Mechanics Stuff You Haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012