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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... algebraic groups with a friend at midnight before a biology pset is due may

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... ! Images not for the faint-hearted. Spiraling out of control. - Now is ... doing any of those things once I got here. At the same time, it seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  take the train back to MIT. So I look at it on google maps real quick ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... up? Nope. I went for a 5 mile run to test out the waters: My big

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Berlin, Germany, and now am back at MIT to start a Ph.D. in Applied ... ), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high ... happily forgot about insects for four years in a wealth of friends, classes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Faviero, and I love being at MIT! For one, I get awesome opportunities being ... one activity, however, that we hope you will join us for: MIT Quest ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  -n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily ... this was my way for making up for not spending any time there at all this ... the third floor somewhere on MIT campus, frantically studying for my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... . I feel like such a nerd for taking a picture of the engine, but it was ... miss. At the Sriracha Tiger Zoo (where I had some issues with their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  student at MIT or elsewhere, chances are you've already started looking for ... YOURSELF A DECENT BACKPACK. I made the mistake of getting one for $35 at an army surplus store, sized for a man, so the waist strap at its

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... interns for the summer, I was all like, “yay! I will not be the least ... few weeks after that, at a company-wide all hands meeting, founder Deb

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... , Professor Hazel Sive had an inspirational quote as her first slide up at the ... have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  work at home, working outside for my dad. No, I'm not working for Google ... an hour long car ride back home for dinner at McMenamins. If you ... couch. There's not a lot like flopping on the couch at home after a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  first class at MIT—a recitation for 18.022 (Calculus II)—I ended up ... reading. I send an email for my acapella group. I look at my to-do list ... last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... , presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  exactly did all that time go? That's an answer too long and boring for this post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a ... double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  more than a distant reading of the blogs (at least, for this particular ... 244 mentions Google at 152 mentions ECs at 137 mentions (keep in ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  Clif bars today. Oops. 5) I got up at 9 today to buy groceries for a ... , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... student--that's what the memorial was for. Caroline assembled lanterns to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  . And for this project, they got it. (Google "Dance Floor") But they also ... johnston who took publicity pictures for the team) So every ridiculous thing ... dance floor To the hip guys and gals at MIT, First off let me say, "Whoa

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think ... course, I forgot that this rehearsal was actually for elections and involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005