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  Unity

  

  with my classmates was built around highly specific traits. Our head boy ... easy friends with everyone. As one of the school’s unofficial nerds, my ... familiarity with each other, built over the years by shared routine, made it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  with friends. His whole life is parsed out into little hour and half ... ’s been working with minority high school students visiting campus, TA ... Wellesley with his friends there, tells me about his girlfriend, and we both

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  semester, and see it displayed nicely with times and locations of your classes. This tool is integrated with CourseRoad, Google Calendar, and ... cool features.   Planner is similar to Course Picker, but with an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a ... end, he even stuck with me to make sure I was on the right track, even though I was traveling with one of the directors from work. He was a good

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves ... HAVE NICE TEETH. DON'T MESS THEM UP.) With that, a nurse pulled a little ... rolled out of the chair and staggered into the waiting area with two ice

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the ... ). This also enables us to run trials with thousands of worms at a time, which is something that is not possible with mice (can you imagine 1000

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Found Paradise.” Most of the time, you'll agree with one of them. Our ... food and get done with everything early enough to get sleep – at least ... with Calculus BC and was able to choose from 18.02 (regular calculus), 18

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend ... roommates at MIT. In addition to helping with the Infinity camp in June, which ... , highly motivated and very focused individuals with a great deal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  , and gaining experience with databases and servers. These are skills and ... create a successful startup—it takes someone with vision and practical know ... can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast ... they have handed themselves with extraordinary grace, intelligence ... swing or skydiving - or for those of us with young children, paying more

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  time to answer my questions.  but here they are at last, along with my ... campus to [annotation note="jeopardy-style academic competition, but with ... out the window at the charles river, fidget with the buzzer in my hands

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  with the fact of the far greater interest felt by the students this year ... ’t until 1947 with the transformational arrival of conductor Klaus Liepmann ... do with formulating future plans. Ambitious, indeed. The program

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the ... . After my admission and with a summer countdown in full swing, this ... ) demoralized at my inability to solve problems with the grace or speed of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... 's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all ... myself, by myself, and with myself: going for a walk, decluttering my ... people; yet, despite interacting with more people in a day than I would in

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... get a free Arduino, toolbox filled with tools, MakerLodge T-shirt, and ... , because you will be sharing costs with people at some point. I swear by

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  canopy. The view from there was breathtaking, with trees as far as the eye ... with an extremely keen eye, could spot even the tiniest, most well ... around the place. My favourite was the story of “Devil with No Ass”, which

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of beauty,  it is as though with this overwhelming pain and love and beauty ... thought is that growing up, i came up with this defense mechanism of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them ... this, huh?"]I wasn't happy with the people I've surrounded myself with ... person I met in my freshman year to the person that sits with me now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  , my first response is to say Missouri with a somewhat sheepish ... us. Each school or district comes with its own set of generalizations ... resident, the presumptions associated with each school cover things like

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022