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• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... yards. I'd applied to live on-campus knowing this—but deep down, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and reflect on things. If you do any sort of leadership training program, much

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... Last Year of High School Magnifying Glass, which always makes things look

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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  , etc.). One even offered to take photos of us on top of Angels' Landing c ... I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening ... convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those ... , and the biggest threat of all: herself. Celeste makes it with a limited

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel ... midst of planning Comedy Night and SpringFest. I'm really nervous since I ... Fest which is arguably one of the biggest event, if not the biggest event, of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  be applied to. I think that’s one of the greatest strengths of ... ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ago, I discovered that all five of the other buses that stop at my bus

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT ... day. So when I'm reading, I'm feeling guilty about the other parts of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... MIT and experience an assortment of campus life and events ... circadian rhythm out of whack. A few months ago, I was easily putting in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  I switch between saying I study "computer science" or "math" but ... just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every ... had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad ... know feeling of anticipation right before decisions are released, what it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week 5 of Michaelmas term at Cambridge. Week 5 at MIT means Fifth week flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have ... rest of the pool. So basically, all you admissions poohbahs, I'm giving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  science of my movies, you know, like, if Hayden's sitting over here, and you ... Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  much of something that really matters out into the universe without ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007