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  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  on top of being an active member of East Campus Exec. And on paper I ... Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  looking for new talent, so I hope to see you on the stage—or as one of ... , clever new interpretations, and a great deal of humor, and Midsummer Night ... —what is going on, who is doing it, and where it's happening. The best way to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  robotics roles. Was any of it good enough--my job, my output? It didn’t feel ... privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I ... In version of the Terminator (or something).  On paper, I achieved what I set

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music ... better recently! I've told the story once before on the blogs of how I went ... varied, which is definitely a reflection of the way I ventured out into

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

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on ... to support my thesis of inherent DDR-incompetence by jumping on ... 's new Dean of Student Life, Chris Colombo. Dean Colombo spent over two

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  , here are some of my photos. This one is of a cat on a Senior House ... [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a ... Hi folks, Well here you have it - the new-and-improved MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat today on the subject. In between her uncontainable excitement over - of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... by this new nugget of knowledge. Turns out the rest of the week was ... dinner on Friday night when Luke attempted to eat one of the centerpieces

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  in including these as well. I echo the sentiments of a commenter on the ... his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  home; come to think of it, I was one of them. Good ol’ highway 34; a ... , dusty town of Colorado, but also gaining new “familiarities”, if you will ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  freshman advisor sometime in the week of Aug 28-Sept 1. It's also a good idea ... to pick classes. Questions about dorms On my marathon tour of Mac ... promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  March, we visited every station on the New York City subway in a 29-hour ... . Different in an unpredictable way. I'd shaken out the initial thought of I ... .']fun ways to just waste time with your band as you sit on stage

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  particular, one of the strongest memories was overlooking the view on the ... , letting them know the good news. I got a lot of fake shit at school. A lot ... good. I was going to MIT, the school of my dreams. My teachers liked me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... out of a spoon using a bowl. It's an unpleasant way to feel right now

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  , and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... the big picture of Development and more on Design; every group of four ... them into lots of little square briquettes. Make it fast and easy. Of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... ="78902" /] These trips took up a lot (if not all) of my weekends, and so on the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been ... towards that. On the second day of 2022, I found myself pulling out my old ... words excited me. Reflecting on it now, I want more of those feelings. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  beautiful 36% on my first 6.01 exam, that was fantabulous***. Of course, it ... and March. There were a lot of emotional things going on at MIT, and in ... often very good quality. I think there are a lot of people who can do very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  -enterprise selling rice on the market. The cooperative has a very diverse group of ... creating an easy way to classify the different sizes of rice grains (larger ... rewarding. We are eating a lot of good (and cheap) Honduran food and trying to

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012