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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  hung in my room for all of senior year, complementing the greens and ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It ... MISTI kids are trying out a lot of the restaurants in the city and

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... intactness of the roach, and the preservation of my sanity, I had to sacrifice ... the rest of the roach, I removed the legs and antennae. Its feely bits

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... ’t considered and I could be any of them and oh my god what the everloving egg am ... little bit more so: And the 15 or 20 that followed took me all sorts of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... the drone's point of view. Which leads us to the last and most ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  fever. He was the first Class of 1892 graduate to pass away, and ... in the summer and over IAP, focusing primarily on creating profiles of ... ’s support of the international and immigrant members of their community. Two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data ... and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  -viable fragments, unable to form a necessary attachment to the tree and incapable of ... reproduce by replicating themselves on the inner lining of their pits and then ... . They rip Disks off of their stacks and toss them like Frisbees around the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... this earlier in the year, and a grad student friend of mine said ... find a UROP, I should wander the halls of the department and knock on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... that reflect the poems you choose for your zine, and mine (like all of ... wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... both useful advice and some insight into the values of MIT's academic ... talking to the people who work there, and my observations of the students

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really ... close to that first B and then that first A that it's only a matter of ... Cambridge for the first time and set my sights on being a software engineer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian ... of my first year at Wellesley, COVID, and feeling just a little out of ... the level of dedication and effort. And so I did. Luana: Before

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  .”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here ... , sugar, and vanilla extract. About half of the ingredients were actually ... “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... magnitude of the bars for periods 7 and 8 may be similar, but during period 7 ... questions, making mistakes, and savoring all the different flavors of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  the chance to meet a lot of students and answer their questions about ... Les and Tom Nacinovich, who is the EC assigned to Regis. At most of the ... about colleges and universities. Many of the students I met already knew a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  first day, the two of them were already sitting together, and ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to provide first aid and basic medical help). By chance, I recognized the kerb

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  you're walking through campus and you see something a little out of the ... out and the police car was carefully disassembled on top of the dome and ... , but the amount of fun students had and the creativity that blankets the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008