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  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  and blogging about my projects. I never thought MIT would be the ... of ways, MIT is my adventure. I hope to share it with you :)   ... stem from the MIT Class of 2019 Facebook page oddly enough. It was there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... going to take the Red Line to MIT. I don’t actually expect you to be able

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there ... side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... in particular you chose to apply to MIT. I spoke ad nauseum when I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... ideas) are some of MIT`s tenets, so I bought the book. And now I`m buying ... reading this, I reflected on MIT`s mission and on my journey through the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  about GEL, IAP, MIT, and any other 3-lettered abbreviations we have in ... topics. Why did you apply to MIT? Joe: I knew I wanted to study electrical engineering, and MIT is fantastic for that. The general ethos I got from meeting

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  'd start having this conversation- organizing MIT students is nearly ... MIT. That's AWESOME." It's like the complementary bookmark to the ... , "Oh my God, I'm about to go to MIT. That's AWESOME." (Believe it or not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  that it has been a week since I first arrived at MIT. I won't dwell on ... say, both of these desires were fulfilled. I arrived at MIT around 8 AM ... as we thought it would be), for mitBEEF. The food was definitely

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a ... Isaiah N. ‘26, and they told me a little bit about life as an MIT lax bro ... . Outside of lacrosse, I am an undergraduate researcher at MIT’s Computer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that ... math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  :) even with MIT, it was (and kind of still is, when i really contemplate it) weird to think that “i am an MIT student.” MIT wasn’t my childhood dream ... more psyched to come to MIT, but i still had my doubts and worries even

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... "] Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi le:Green_Building,_MIT ... space at MIT. It could be a fantastic space, open to all parts of the MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and ... wrote about wanting to help out with the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... love MIT. Let me tell you about my friends, without naming names: They ... MIT, and it's inspiring. It gives me hope in a state of the world whose

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  am a course 20 (biological engineering), and I am in my 3rd year at MIT ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now I don't mean to say that MIT is decreasing my ability to be creative

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest ... have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not ... semester at MIT I decided to have a very heavy load over MITs independent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... fulfilling orders from Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, MIT, the MIT Lincoln ... were VR visionaries, TechCrunch bloggers, MIT alums. The auditorium was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  field anyway, so why not start early with a relevant degree? MIT did not ... ended up taking two Political Philosophy classes this semester, one at MIT ... explore the topics I adore. I work on two different projects at the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... this minor, the first response I usually get is, “MIT has humanities

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You ... applying to MIT. I went to an ordinary public school, and they prepared me ... fact, I know a transfer student at MIT who did exactly that, and now he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos ... :   Noah was going to be on campus for MIT's SAT test prep ... an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015