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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of ... , pika rush* coincides with the first week of school, injecting sunbursts ... marathon? Nobody, that's Who. *At MIT, the first week of school is reserved

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  the middle of my Asian Dance Team showcase and watched in awe as ... their cats! 73% of EC and and 66.7% of Random voted for cats as the best ... -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... . However, all of the assignments were due at the same times and the amount of ... my other classes, and I had to switch it to listener at the end of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  end of the night, some of my friends and I ventured over the Spring ... , and of course, the Meet the Bloggers event! The event went lovely - the ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The ... heaven. And the fact is that a lot of times, you don't even need the Subway ... , one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  tests, APs, and whether you'd prefer Chem or Bio first semester. On the ... analyze “fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions ... Tuesdays there are two lectures about the history of film and particular

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... work of all the people who came before me, and how other humans were ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  them, and they used the Common App. I picked my first college because it ... fit in. For the first time in my life I didn't enjoy school anymore. And ... classes as I could, spent the remainder of my time working as a teaching and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  nation to take the step of fusing molecular and cellular bioscience with ... might also add that the two bearded admissions officers, Ben and Stu, were ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in"]Tyler Jacks[/annotation] and [annotation note="associate director at the Koch

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons ... is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... alumnae, prefrosh, and current students all across the country, who better

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... 've memorized the musical and [annotation note="and absorbed about 60% of it ... radicals of their day, pushing back against the horrors of colonialism and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily ... stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and ... of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  the world? civilization and government seem doomed in the face of ... unaware of it - the 1975 MUSICAL: the last five years - jason robert brown ... , or a universal open-mindedness and tolerance of difference. perhaps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... first time now[/annotation] because of the new BBC/HBO television ... rooting me squarely and irrevocably in the corner of Good in that old battle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  and get letters of recommendation. (By the way…I’m writing this on the train and it just broke down!!! Ahh, Amtrak, you are the bane of my ... considering applying, I checked out the bios of the past scholars and found them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  laughed, turning and flagging down the guy perched on top of the wall, who ... . Welcome to REX. One of the first things you learn when you get to college ... on later, when the flash-bang chaos of REX and Orientation ends. So

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  times. "Is MIT really like CPW?" The answer is, yes and no. Yes, in the ... . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... about your living group, the student groups you're a part of, your major

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of ... place and I feel overwhelmed and all shivery-like when I think of things ... and check out all the classes. If you don't feel like it, don't worry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012