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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... country. Although I have taken and enjoyed many humanities classes at MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  get questions like, "So, what's MIT like?" Yeah, I'm not answering that ... give me some of yours. =) 3. Ask good questions. If you ask me “does MIT ... just go to the MIT home page, click on academics, and then read through

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at ... Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... ."   So when I was applying to MIT, I had to answer this prompt

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  admissions process, I like helping admitted students learn about MIT before ... and drifted towards MIT. We touched on admissions (How's Matt? Matt ... set of them. Up until now, MIT has been a fun, relatively informal

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... 'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  recreational exploration."][/annotation] Bad Ideas is an annual tradition at MIT ... ideas a success reminded me of what MIT students can do when we put our

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

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... 's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence ... . Personally, this makes me feel claustrophobic, and a little sad. MIT is near

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and post-MIT) experience. Identifying as a hipster-sans-the-fashion, I ... , the first place after MIT that feels like home. Like many other MIT ex

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... Ave from across Lobby 7: always reminded me that wow, I go to MIT. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  fear when I walked home because the MIT police drove around campus ... most tragic thing happened. A young and passionate officer from MIT PD ... of The Tech A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... MIT have cool names: Kerberos, Athena, and now Interstellar! Though ... a Harvard student calling MIT their engineering school, an MIT student

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... , especially if you were just not accepted by MIT for undergraduate admissions or ... happiness and success and life purpose, but that’s, like, not in NP.) MIT won

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  performers gather in Talbot Lounge and pray. They pray for salvation, for MIT ... , meritocracy, stress, depression, despair, suicide. An MIT freshman who lives ... , I suppose, is MIT. For where two or three are gathered in my name

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  comes to MIT and leaves knowing what he or she loves, then we have done ... nicely: “I am continually amazed at how personable the MIT professors are ... are always given at Hogwarts in the MIT Physics department to those that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  are an MIT student, you check your email compulsively. It's the only way ... enough cookies for every member of the MIT community to have one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  important stories, about MIT and about planning our futures. The first is Drop ... the MIT News Office here. It is about risk, innovation, and life plans ... graduates, at 3:11:50, transcribed by the MIT News Office here. President Reif

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just being foolish. Noone from my entire county goes to MIT, especially not

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015