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• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... -on stuff, outside of a lab, was scary), or any math beyond the General ... enough challenges in life or in academics and would cave the first time I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  first online community. As members of the Awesome Socks Club, my friends ... 2012, so this is the first online community I have been a part of. The ... conscious life. I stumbled into the Green brothers’ corner of the internet

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... Mandarin because it's the official language of the most populous country of ... continually wondered what the heck they were saying. I started remember parts of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  the final numbers- aka # of applicants, # admitted, # waitlisted. i know ... can. Alice McLorec asked, "When is the RSI letter of notification going ... to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  concentration in biomedical devices. After the first few weeks of taking 3 ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for ... prone to headaches and nausea (aka, me.) Yet, the quiet drone of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... a large, two topping pizza. We got bacon and sausage and ate the whole

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people ... , and Roger Barkan First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  post, I’ll first cover some of the things I did and then present some ... This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  soldering! My sources tell me that when Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ... check out the Disco Dance Floor and hung out for a while on First East ... If you've haven't yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  groups + orgs, etc. rather than the student body as a whole or grad ... "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and ... individuals when they are asked the question of what they like about MIT and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  250-page final paper. Now, this might be a result of the chemical ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT ... of A/B/C. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you ... after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  tests, we had no in-person practice for the first week of IAP ... auditions. in the first two in-person weeks of Mocha Month, we focused on ... us. the show has 14 dances, 12 of which are created in the few weeks

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the ... Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... volleyball, and just goofing around with the team with 30 of us packed into one ... ’s grandma on the speaker. Her grandma sounded so proud of our coach and so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  people who would go on to become part of my MIT family. On the first day, I ... far that I know changed the course of my life. The first was my 7yo self ... addressing many of the issues within their system. I hope that you, like me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  ; after we learned all the sections of our first set and moved onto cleaning ... here at MIT.  We’re both active members of the dance community; we joined ... cultural art that this group aims to celebrate; the team performs at lots of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not finish this early, but GAH! (the second time this semester, fourth time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  of the easiest. MIT's 27 fraternities stand alongside the dorms as a ... fraternity, but also in the Greek system as a whole. We are, in many ways, not ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008