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  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time...(I'm with Jeremy, my travel buddy to Mathcamp that year. He's also in MIT ... them are now at MIT! (there are 7 here now, out of the entire program

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  the games, as an MIT student I'm naturally fascinated with the scoring ... 't done an entry on MIT in a while, and these two things--reading World Cup ... thinking about what, exactly, I've gotten out of MIT's chemical engineering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  scientists in the US, twelve of whom are at MIT, including Morgan), that's the ... 'm currently a freshie at MIT and was just curious about the grad school ... on ur successes! :)) and how much it matters that you attend a HYPMS/MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  MIT?" OK, so maybe you had to be there, but Ruth and Matt and I thought ... . "We want to go to MIT?" "So do lots of people!" On that topic, I feel ... that concept and apply it to MIT! (But don't go nuts about it- your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  nerds actual Nobel Laureates from both H****** and MIT, celebrate ... becoming great friends with their neighbors early on in their MIT experience ... bothered for the past few weeks that although the MIT community has been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Weekend and in the online MIT09 chat were also housed in East Campus, and I ... , "Love Your Beaver," are a tribute to MIT's mascot. Liquid nitrogen ice ... actually choose to room with each other. Indeed, the beauty of MIT's housing

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

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  entered the MIT admissions office for the first time during [annotation note ... ="This might not be so far from reality: as I’ve learned, many—dare I say most—MIT ... note="One of MIT's undergraduate dorms"]Burton Conner.[/annotation] Why

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  blog about this']I made the difficult decision to take a leave from MIT for the fall of my sophomore year.[/annotation] As part of the MIT FLI ... respect the craft of acting. I even took an acting class at MIT. There

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... other words, MIT is overrun with math people who cannot help but speak in ... quirks before. For example, many know that MIT’s buildings aren’t named

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of ... school--schools like MIT (among others, of course). Before I found out about Stanford, I hadn't really thought about applying to MIT. The same

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  about Bloggers, Boston, and the Great Beyond.  claim: mit students grind ... 200+ clubs that exist at mit need to have people running them or ... BLOGSTON COMMONS EP. 1 EVERYONE!!! 🎉🎉🎉 it began, as many MIT things do

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  , graduated from mit last year and is currently doing independent research on ... with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being ... success of Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell, and John Maynard Keynes, while MIT’s

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main ... MIT's General Institute Requirements, the subjects that every MIT ... you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  , but we all never had time to see it. thanks, MIT—at least all of us were ... gorgeous park that's about a 20-minute drive from MIT. we spent the day there ... , i got brunch with a MIT friend and hung out around East Campus before

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ) May 13, 2016 (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know ISEF existed ... applicants to MIT; most of our admitted students did not do so. However, they ... : because there are many students there who would love to attend MIT and who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  year I took advantage of IAP to take the MIT EMT training course so I could become a member of MIT-EMS. I think there is some pressure to ... Connections which is MIT’s alumni association website, via which students can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you ... 26-100, which is MIT's biggest lecture hall. Movies are shown in there ... . I called ESP security (the team of MIT student volunteers who really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  Anna H. '14, the MIT blogger, spend the weekend of Jan 13-15 doing? Your instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... winter on a 21st century MIT campus, so chances are that whatever she spent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... to say students don't get individual attention from professors at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still ... have almost certainly heard, last weekend was Mystery Hunt - MIT's annual ... happen at MIT. In addition to helping out with a bunch of traditional pen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008