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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  :15 because the MIT concert band was leaving for a gig in Harvard, MA in EXACTLY ... of background info: The MIT Concert Band is a student organization, as ... the MIT Symphony Orchestra). We rehearse twice a week and accept people

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  the MIT Ambulance. EMTs must protect patient privacy, so we're never ... 't any. I guess that means that MIT studnts are healthy, right? Anyway, I ... with the students admitted to MIT who happen to be meeting in Princeton

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT ... MIT. Yeah, that's about as original as the obligatory standing ovation

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on ... - Beaded Art[/caption] When I applied to MIT, it was as a prospective math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for ... of people (MIT-affiliated and not!) descend onto MIT's campus over the ... against puzzles of any and all forms. This is the MIT Mystery Hunt: an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it ... incredibly lucky with all my professors throughout MIT. this year is no

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... . After three very different falls at MIT, I finally felt like I knew what I ... done with fresh starts. When I first came to MIT, I thought I wanted

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because it’s a great opportunity, and it almost felt like an MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... front of her. It reminds me of exactly one year ago. When, MIT was a new ... all of you! So, welcome to MIT ‘22s!! We can’t wait to get to know y

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said ... was to come. Coming into MIT, I never really considered myself

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... ...what’s the difference, really? (featuring an actual MIT lecture, 2.051: Heat ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  Matt Damon? The actor? I thought MIT Commencement speakers were ... know him as the MIT janitor from Good Will Hunting or as the astronaut ... important things." Photo by Dominick Reuter, courtesy of MIT News.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  my MIT experience that I've been sick for more than a few days. I ... it here because I imagine that MIT Admissions attracts high ... ’m editing for the MIT chapter. We've been live for only two weeks, but I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... sort of emblematic of MIT. No matter how hard you practice for something ... chance your roommate will beat you. Because this is MIT, so the odds are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  a tech school. We’ll have guest lectures by MIT speakers who have ... their format is shocking after a year at MIT. It’s odd not to pset here ... con of such a lifestyle at MIT is loneliness. I am the only humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  circumstance.   (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know the ISOs ... to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  attend as a prefrosh. But this is really fun as an MIT student, too~ I ... much at MIT--I thought I was top notch at failing, but I leveled up and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  the Class of 1954. Tech Reunions are exactly what they sound like—MIT ... . Basically post-MIT CPW. The Alumni Association searches for current MIT ... current students about what life at MIT is like nowadays. For example

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  clarify something about my path at MIT - I now know what I am concentrating ... able to attend two acapella concerts at MIT this semester - The MIT-Wellesley Toons and The MIT Logarithms! They were both fantastic. Here are some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  things with them that you can both enjoy.  Some of my best friends at MIT ... 't enough for your parents, you can tell them that MIT has a 24/7 student ... also have MIT Medical right here on campus, which has a walk-in urgent

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014