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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  interspersed with modern buildings like the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center, with its huge glass atrium, and the famous contemporary Simmons Hall ... with windows and ice cream cones). People have mixed feelings about MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  So about a year or so ago, I was looped into an email chain with ... totally go check out his blog posts, they are filled with all kinds of ... ! With this blog post, I'm pulling inspiration from something that Prof

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  my phone exploding with notifications. Harvard’s decision was out ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... living through a pandemic. And we were being forced off campus. With

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  questions, but I'm trying to catch up now that I'm home, so please bear with ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... away from school, especially at dinners with family friends that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me ... with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose ... and develop interests with, enthusiasms pool together in a common

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... Missouri, and I enjoyed the peace, friendliness, and comfort that came with ... for me to adjust to: Struggling to find people with my background. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... middle of the afternoon with reckless abandon. Adjust your schedule

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... classroom doors with teachers’ names that I didn’t recognize. The school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  with. Having a really awesome living group can make all the difference ... live together, and I love having a place so filled with quirky, loving individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Canyon Road on Christmas Eve, with the farolitos and the music and everyone ... , dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to ... from sixteen to nineteen, with English vocabularies ranging from from “4

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  ) when the door behind me flung open with a bang and a hat was pulled onto my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  does it say now?” asked Arthur. “Mostly harmless,” admitted Ford with a ... second or third or fourth petri plate with different antibiotics or food in ... determine the class “Top Gun.” We worked with .22 caliber semiautomatic rifles

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch ... . She pointed out that a top middle school runner with perfect form and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
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  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  space with their own homemade rocket (from their own homemade submarine ... Boston but I am pretty sure it would not fly with campus police. But if ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... . We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with ... why even with the significant narrowing down we accomplished in freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned scientists and share their stories with the public - FOR A LIVING! Sounds ... . Most of my classmates seem pretty settled with their major; they know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
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  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  start a novel with the lines, ‘It was a dark and stormy night’.” And you ... with no end in sight. That nagging, hopeful feeling that you’re so close ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide ... looked around my room. Messy for the past month, it was cluttered with ... were splayed open and covered with papers that were probably important

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this ... , one filled with doubt, depression, and difficult decisions. My cursor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022