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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... three most popular places that people have cried on campus were: MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT ... student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the ... stresses that come with MIT. Whatever the case, it's clear each of us has ... of my family, my fraternity, and the rest of the MIT community. And I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... articulated consonants. Sadly, the MIT dialect becomes imperceptible once you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... wrong with MIT, and how they think we should fix it. It was 3:15pm last

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a ... scores were stellar. However, also like most MIT students, I was still very ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... . MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... -250, one of MIT’s largest lecture halls. We emerged triumphant, carrying five ... tubs (!) of free Toscanini’s through an MIT mailing list dedicated to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... to) Gee, my classes are boring   At MIT, fortunately, that's not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of ... : William Yee We heard speeches by the Governor of Massachusetts and MIT ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... my lab -- we do take MIT UROPs. At the very least, come have $1 ice ... 'm at MIT two or three times a week, coaching the cheerleading squad. When

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Screenshot your conversations and share them. (With ... outside MIT. Go on walks with friends. Go on walks in the tunnels. Follow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  with windows and ice cream cones). People have mixed feelings about MIT’s ... student. In this image Boston is on the right and MIT is on the other side ... building in MIT and in Cambridge, with a spherical white weather machine

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  . Some of you brilliant prospective MIT students know exactly what I mean ... like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows ... reasonable, and he genuinely cares about his students and the culture at MIT ... Grimson-related fan art submissions, like this gem: or this, more MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  the more unsung parts of MIT: People here are very clever. You see ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... MIT apart from other institutions is the incredibly stimulating

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  .[/annotation] As my colleague Chris wrote about the amicus brief MIT submitted in ... undergraduate recruitment and selection, MIT looks at each application ... relevance of diversity to MIT’s educational mission have been developed in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023