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  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because ... school. For a long time I had been very out of touch with other ethnic ... confronted with a world of people I had never related to. A majority of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a completely new place with new people, new challenges, new thrills, and the same old me. There’s change in the air too, and with every breath I take

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  IHTFP (below), as well as a poem with hopes for 2000 A.D. (also, below ... consuming food). However, even with the limited number of options (compared ... regard it with more or less favor, as is shown by the fact that each one of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... network with businessmen, entrepreneurs, and investors. Even the physical

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  group that doesn’t seem to want to have anything to do with the decision ... , and I came away with a much better understanding that he was a real ... . In the time that has elapsed since then, I have spoken with numerous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  to use the remaining summer time to fall in love with the writing ... stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a ... Otsuchi with 8 other MIT students and the MISTI-Japan program manager for a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  with visuals and links. * The month started and ended with visits from ... fact, Professor Agustin Rayo is credited with stating the largest named ... rest of the MIT faculty is also rather incredible. I got to interact with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  IAP, throwing myself into all this sprinting caught up with me in the ... back with open arms. Sophomore spring season, I ran into the same ... first one: I love sleeping. And dreaming. I can’t function with less than

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with ... 're passionate about, to hang out with friends, and explore Cambridge and Boston ... prints though. Also this was a picture taken with an iPhone of an actual

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... in Yosemite this summer. While cragging with some friendly strangers ... big. Still, engineering is engineering, and I worked with the same

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last ... control of the bike and slammed head-first into a bush), With a lot of ... fiddle with changing the gear on the bike. Eventually I had such bad nausea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in touch with my EC and we agreed to meet at his office. He works out in one ... early with one of my best friends (who lives near Canary Wharf) and we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something ... disconcerting in its unfamiliarity. Upon closer introspection, I concluded, with ... normal. It wasn’t until it all dissipated with the last flourish of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  I do okay - I've been really nervous! But I am taking it with my good ... than 3.022, I am working on my management minor with 15.812 and 15 ... the semester.  My accounting professor even has lunches with his

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  with mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables (brussels sprouts, bell peppers ... rest of the ceremony totally distracted with assembling it. After my ... A shirt showing people high-fiving, with the caption "Asymptotic High

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  with it) -- 1. ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine. Each class ... with a very familiar soundtrack: my brain knows what's coming up, it has ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... process of "WHAT???? HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN COME UP WITH THIS???"-->"I KNOW ... techniques you used / what you said / how you dealt with topics that you really

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

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 2nd, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... you are a QB applicant, along with full name and date of birth on the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  totally arbitrary order, starting with number 2. My first exposure to Rocky ... , differential equations, and I was hanging out with one of the campus FOCUS ... wedges of cheese, with a small hole cut into each near the top center

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  whipped up sign-up sheets for all our hall members to help with cooking ... games and animals for the kids to play with outside. Our Graduate Resident ... wack our friend Austin with pool noodles. Everyone crowded around baby

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013