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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  way back when and I'd found myself an MIT student for the first time and ... introduced as a senior at MIT. Yikes. Of course, all the actual seniors are ... forward to waking up at 6:30am on friday. I'm stationed left of the stage

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn ... get psyched CPW is probably my third-favorite time of the year (after

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... ="2546"] 7/7 is pretty good! (also rare)[/caption] At the end of each ... from 0-7. The subject evaluations website maintains a database of recent

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  embarking on the ridiculous quest of acquiring these resources. First, we ... HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely ... apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... of the above) Q2. We know you lead a busy life, full of activities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... air. Trapeze has a really satisfying learning curve the first few months ... . After a late night of work, the trapeze is finally flight-ready!  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  the plethora of information that has made its way into the gentle folds ... last but not least: the abundance of information that is shared with all ... flying at an altitude of 141 feet at the ground speed of 3.1 miles per hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my first MIT math exam. On the same day, both my math professors brought up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it ... all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... prison system in Georgia and the benefits of rehabilitation, and the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  challenge of obligation. I invited members of the EESA (Ethiopian ... of the people I refer to as “international”, though, have a very ... the U.S. and some other places, of taking history as Facts with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  difficulty trusting people. I’m spending the first half of Spring Break in New ... reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of ... , staring at the soft eggshell paint of my ceiling and pondering my exam

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

    In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short ... the beauty and promise." Today was the first really warm day. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  current and alumni bloggers in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... the agonizingly stressful yet undoubtedly invaluable process of ... sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  me. Even in high school, I'd go through the first two days of classes ... chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012