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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... , and beautiful all at the same time. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... drizzly and dreary in Cambridge. Our ceremony started at 4 PM, and the sun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  said 'when you look at dirt, realize that it's not really dirt.'" That ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... at a whiteboard that proclaimed two hundred dollars’ worth of chips ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate. At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... wonderfully exhilarating all at the same time. There would be hopeful, "I ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... our COVID test, etc. etc.. But I wasn't nervous at all. I knew how ... like. At least during the first semester. The Office of the First Year

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in ... staples, and prepared culturally-resonant foods at prices that are ... milk that Daily Table bought wholesale and sold at lower margins than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... research experience - or any at all - under your belt. Professors definitely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about ... about missing me while I was off at grad school, and now, I'm reposting

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon ... student at MIT had the script in their inbox. The e-mail thread that ... , at this rate we'll be #1 in about 6 hours

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , Nathan H. '20, Sandy W. '20, Nia M. '20 We left our wing at 6:50 p.m. to ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... : I have read EVERY SINGLE CLASS DESCRIPTION for EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT AT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing acronym. at the beginning of every academic year, the mit list visual arts

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Contents 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 2. MIT: The ... . Technology 1934 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 28 mins ... social challenges at MIT. The students and researchers in this video share

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... about, telling the inhabitants 'to watch '93 at 11:30.'" That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the ... that mean I'm twice as good at writing as you are?" Adam: "Well, you're definitely not twice as good at math!") During his summers, Adam didn't have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005