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  transitions memories of first snow

  

  Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... mode that I have to exist in, at least for now. This Thanksgiving break ... at another school, and I'd say, "Well, I really don't like that, so I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt ... see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  , but kudos to them for doing so. We had a few hours of free time back at ... addition to this post. We also recently performed our Brazilian music at MIT ... first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  bedsheets in 351. I stayed in that bed for days at a time during my first IAP, unable to force myself out of bed to eat, staring at the ceiling for hours ... aggressively bad at reading maps. Notoriously, infamously, comically bad at it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  lot while at MIT, from freshman orientation until now. I did not have the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... at the student center. Emmanuel is also highly active in the African

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  physicists for years, and though I may feel like I know better at times, I ... popular at MIT or not? Yes? No? What do you think of when you think ... at MIT- and 5 of them are women. Luckily, the ratio of men to women

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  for a concert I was told started at 7:00 PM. I strapped on my skates ... settled in to wait for the show. It's 8:00 PM at this point. The lighting ... So my schedule at work is pretty sweet. I work slightly long days all

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  for the second short essay: can you tell me (at least three days before ... high school). Will the admissions office look at things like that? As for ... other school, for that matter) for at least a few months, as now begins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  you to join us here at MIT. For those of you who haven’t made a ... When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... you know someone who had a clown for a neighbor. You know, if that ever

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional ... event at Harvard, and decided that MIT would be the perfect setting to ... schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  ) takes the proverbial cake for hopscotching around my criteria for likable ... history who learned the Li√©nard–Wiechert formulation of potentials for a ... set for that particular week was far more bipolar than dipolar: one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  a penchant for closing on you at exactly the wrong time. CJ: If you trapped the minotaur in Stata, it’d take at least six months for Facilities ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  question posed by someone over at CC: "I am applying to MIT for the second ... I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  how he tried waving at Danny, and thought I was rude (for not waving ... interactions for a secret to be kept that long or even at all. 6) Studying by ... at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  at my high school, so I joined my friend and only other female teammate (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and ... and eating bags of black tea at my final exams. For about a month after ... sphere of flames. One squinted at the screen. “Shouldn’t we see it already

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  online, homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8 ... 'll give credit for the questions that we at least answered!! *frantically ... powers at be have begun to realize that nothing swells the ego of an MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  on my end. I should be setting at least six months aside for studying ... reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past ... naive attempt at a very raw and honest reflection on the past year +/- a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... meandered for a while and at about 2:15 we headed back to the Elmer booth ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  include:  my accent (“can you say no for me?”) my confusion at what a ... ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... currently kicking my ass"]6.1210[/annotation] TA asked us for our favourite

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024