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• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... checked in at my hotel near the airport, went for a run along the Liberty ... pit bull Molly at Breach Break Cafe for brunch around 10 AM. I then got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... the final round. I looked around the room, at the wood paneled walls

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  . Through the Council for the Arts at MIT, you can get free or discounted ... at MIT. If there is something you want to do, there is always some way ... glassblowing and psycholinguistics to creative computation. There are clubs for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  cards are actually blue and yellow! The two-letter abbreviations stand for various capabilities of engineering leadership. For example, IR means ... weekend, MIT's Cross Country Team raced at the New England Division III

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  does. She realizes that this opportunity at MIT should not be taken for ... Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , especially Bio and Chem, online at MIT Open Course Ware. While studying for the ... Requirements—GIRs). When looking at MIT, my first thought after learning about ... .01, Physics Mechanics (you’re still on the hook for Electricity and Magnetism

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... ’ve tried regularly working out at many points in my life, and this summer was ... for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  afford to get better at it, and I know this class will be good for me. It ... I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  first concert two Saturdays ago, at Harvard. Admission was free for ... Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for ... for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can ... . HELP!) Anyway, I'm externing at an economic consulting company, along ... am capped at this amount of information, I'll try to get some other MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  group's senior class, as well as two stray juniors, which made for the ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the ... the most popular location by far, though. I ran into at least two dozen

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is ... often at MIT: I could never do it alone.  With this in mind, I wanted to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... a haircut at this place my brother recommended--the guy there said he was booked all morning so i scheduled an appointment at 3:15 in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  My first week at MIT was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!  There was an ... at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  Remember that time when I was an RA at nerd camp? Here's what I ... update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high ... to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  college student, save for ramen.) Speaking of dining halls at MIT, Baker ... was extremely talented at setting things afire, but that doesn't count ... pay a set price ($275 this semester) at the start of the term, entitling

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  confrontation. My acne has been scratching at my self-confidence for YEARS. I ... A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be ... walk to Simmons was regular. I marvelled at the West Campus landscape

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015