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• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... and a cupcake for doing my laundry rappelling cooking an edible meal ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  context of a human rights-related field, doing mostly national-level and ... /glass/gemstone jewelry as a hobby, and I do a lot of activism. I learned a decent amount of ... to do with my major. But I still think that MIT played a pretty big

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A ... yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... MIT has to offer, things can and do go wrong.  It’s a law that holds ... suddenly makes sense.  You'll get this a lot from doing PSets.  Those moments

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... ... The MIT admissions blogs are, as a whole, supposed to convey a diverse

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... world pushes me to do. Despite the fear and the nervousness, I do have a ... write a lot more and and and I just have a lot of things I want to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  dish, folks doing impressions of upperclassmen, and we just finished a ... scavenger hunt! What’s that, you may ask? Well, Tetazoo is a floor in East Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  have nothing else to really do except strike up a conversation. Person A ... do you call this food item (pictured below)? A. Fried Dough B ... dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan ... team while doing a pset. Watching them solve math problems reminded me of ... , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous ... corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  about for a few days wondering what to do. Wednesday night, I told my ... would be, but pointed out that that wasn't a reason to not do it. Since he ... , well - I sort of felt like doing that anyway. The second was a narrator

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  , Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 students on a comparative urban studies program focused on understanding the ... I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . the challenge is doing so in a way that isn’t confining or prescriptive ... listen to and probably do a good job of optimizing my life with respect to its value system, but that feels like doing myself a disservice. i have

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  While you guys are waiting for decisions to be released, here's a ... classroom. No doubt you've heard about it, as it is getting a lot of press ... am taking a risk, because this thread CAN'T devolve into a left versus

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this ... it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... cautioned off from the public due to a battle scene between the different

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 ... who don't: the MIT class ring (a.k.a. Brass Rat) is not only one of the ... with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  . I'll be doing a later post this week on everything I've read, listened ... pretty on/off with it this fall since i was sick a lot. i'm currently doing ... will do a huge blog on that once Raymond and I's housing is finalized

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing ... doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed ... a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  has a group, and many will be there to talk to you about what they do ... have to do the MIT thing and sleep a little less). You're probably ... members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  a second semester senior in high school. What on earth do you guys ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010