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• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  and half of orientation, I lived on the floor 3C. My dorm room was ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school friends and I during our superhero day. The other one was holding a picture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his ... , bureaucracy, and litigation. A trip to the department of medical records proved

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an ... veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... and the path of least resistance to stay at MIT, take the classes I ... . Then, it was the challenge of putting together a study plan and pre

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  Good day! One of the many unique and altogether unavoidable aspects ... such a pattern? Create and claim ownership over the first unclaimed list ... , ladies and gents - THE MIT FRESHMAN'S GUIDE TO RECOVERING OWNERSHIP OF

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose ... way is the February Updates and Notes form.  On the last section of ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  simply curious. And then there are the blank stares - the heavy gazes of ... . On that first day in the orphanages, after taking in the state of ... monochromatic view as far as the eye could see of beige sky and sand, dotted with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and watching old recruitment videos and HOO BOY, have times changed. (And hoo boy, have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  Education) and Wes Harris (Department Head of Aero/Astro) - lit the crowd on ... and see MIT in all of its glory. We finished off the evening with what I ... stage at the Battle of the Bands. My colleague and fellow blogger Ben

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved ... was the first semester for many things for me. Yesterday, I had the

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  computer screen and having no breaks except a couple of trips to the bathroom ... the 10 AM test (also worth 12.5% of grade) to work on this, and that if ... of IHTFP, and ILTFP (the sentiment, not the student activist group), at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  this, and then: MIT. The month I've spent here thus far reminds me of ... scenic viewpoint, when we would get out and stand just the width of a road away from the base of a mountain and crane our heads upwards, our eyes

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the ... options over the few days, there are lots of things to choose from and ... lots of questions. It’s the way our students learn and will work well for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  battle within where one part of himself –the compassionate and sensitive ... seeing this scene for the first time when I was much younger and not thinking much of it. But now, on the cusp of turning 20 and having rewatched

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  everyone was posting about first coming/coming back to college, and all the ... version of it all. I think the theme of my first semester at MIT was ... world” than I have ever been before, and it solidifies the idea of moving

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... the knowledge that there are so many kinds of happiness, and it is nice

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  whole point. All that being said, here are the contents of MIT students ... . The bloggers are a diverse and multifaceted bunch, but there are thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  residents could be shut out of the place they live and, in my mother's case ... institute-wide update on the situation and a reaffirmation of our values yesterday afternoon: To the members of the MIT community, First, an update

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  time, I first think of the long and cramped East Campus hallway that was ... after the first snow of the year, and making each other tea and cookies ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the ... here), and of course the incredible amount of funding for class projects ... and learn the material, instead of drinking through the firehose. We

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014