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  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my head…

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a completely new place…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror stories. “Not every day”…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  I’ve only been here for a few weeks, but ‘here’ already feels like home. There are things I miss about real home too. Like my high school friends, or my…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here’s a cross-section of my coursework this semester, as represented by some notes from each class: 16.06 – Principles of Automatic Control this is a required…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  So if you’ve been reading these blogs for a while now, you might already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I came into MIT not…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  As you probably know, we’ve taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A few years ago, for example, we challenged…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent time in the city before. Plus,…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging Habits for AY 2017 (Academic…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  It is currently 5:26am and even though I really truly definitely positively absolutely should be asleep right now, I’m not. I know that classes start tomorrow (or I guess today,…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• 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 official their fall schedule (add/drop notwithstanding). Tomorrow is the first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791…

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

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it was interesting enough…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  FPOPs are freshman pre-orientation programs, where you get to come to MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting to know the other freshmen…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of committment to diversity. In fact, as…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of “what do I want to be when I grow up” is a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess,…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  The blogs have been quiet lately. Summer is ending, freshman are arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  Economics is a weird kind of science. Like biologists or chemists, economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or refute their theories about the world. But…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  Hey Internet, how’s it going? Good? Good! Personally, I’ve had a pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near-absence of productivity – three things…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities around the U.S. and it’s entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I always liked the idea of reality TV – capturing…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016