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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on ... , and consumed something on the order of 5-10 each. It was a fabulous mood ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and ... admissions officers who are supportive of students taking a gap year. And, like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a ... of EECS and kept each semester fresh and exciting. However, the ocean

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  in St. Moritz and fulfilled another dream of mine: skating outdoors on ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off and ... , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  !) After finally getting on my flight two and a half hours later than expected, I sighed with relief and took a LONG nap on my flight from DFW to ... cars and void of pedestrians, Boston strikes me as a city with a quick

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  Registrar’s Office and Office of the First Year for example) and with some ... process and want you to be able to express yourself authentically. We ... you aren’t comfortable sharing with others. All of our privacy policies
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  bus ride and we played lots of fun road trip games on the way. Even ... Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I am a junior, and I play midfield on the Varsity Women’s Soccer team. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... on the train and hope that I wake up to my 7:20 alarm. 7:30 AM ... summer. I've learned so much!! Though I'm pre-med and am pretty set on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean ... hundreds of invited guests include sponsors, mentors, and coaches. Among the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  . On the way home, we ran into Jerome, I think wearing one of the hats ... economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting ... intention of sightseeing and watching both World Cup games. And a digital

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  part of DesignPlus, and it’s had a big impact on our MIT experiences so ... of the shop managers, trained me on various tools and machines ... You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  hours of my life. Eric '14 and I tried our hand at some astrophotography ... pictures of nebulae, galaxies, etc. Let me know if you recognize any ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  pets in dorms, and the number of pet-friendly schools appears to be on ... cat for a couple of minutes and just de-stress." On the third floor of ... working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind ... ; Computer Science] Department, and allows girls to explore through hands-on ... sciences, and engineering." Also, there are lots of other great, focused

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  closet at home, and found some …. Things.  The sorting process started out normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  on netflix and suddenly it's august. i'm tired of macgregor's teeny tiny kitchens (sorry macgregor) and ready to move back home to east ... packing. and we'll see you on campus soon :)

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  to video game The Last of Us, and is now working on a fantasy trilogy ... , the class went on break, and she signed our copies of Friends With Boys ... of comics on the Internet. We all have ideas. Ada T. ’16 and I are

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... various versions of inflation, to test against observations, and ... his research “has centered on the application of theoretical particle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  he drew on a piece of a paper: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number ... 't know any seniors. This year, however, I knew tons of seniors, so there ... zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014