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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... setting myself up for failure by promising myself full blogs about ... … Yosemite for a day, then drive over to… San Franciscoto end our trip

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... fortunate to get past the rough start and still take most of the classes I ... , these were probably one of the most helpful things for me to learn because

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President ... is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the ... for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the ... to New York I went. But first, what exactly is the biennial? From

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  when MIT decided to “divest as appropriate for those portfolios to ... die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... dorms, and choose a new one if you wish. After you get your final dorm ... . Disclaimer: All of these people are fictional and are being used by me to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... . I’d sworn to stick to math. Cannot imagine why. It took a while to get ... freshman year. I was lost and disillusioned by the end, unable to see my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... . I went to a comedy show and golfed for the first time. I went to the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  , “Welcome to MITES!” The next six weeks flew by. And I don’t know exactly ... Learning and Engineering Design for what felt like forever, I decided to try ... . For our cohort, we created a game where robots had to remove tennis

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... ask for an extra week), I am proud to say that we are completely on time ... Portraits by sending out countless emails; or rushing to the office late at

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  weeks pass I'll get a better feel for this place. Maybe even start to fit in, in a way that feels most true to me.  - By the way, just make ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... out about this UROP opportunity by sending email to professors whose ... redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  thought it would be nice to get away from that for a year. This isn't to say ... to get some kind of perspective on what's out there should start by ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  love to take them, but it's just not an option for me and I feel as ... 's possible for me to take at my school (honors, accelerated, etc.) but thats no ... ." My response:  The only *really* strict requirement for coming to MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  teaching SAT (probably it was an opportunity to finally "get back" at ETS for ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for ... Preparation Program organized by MIT's Educational Studies Program (ESP for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  belong to the world.  The commencement address will be given today by ... for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to ... reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  food for free to MIT's students. I wasn't there, but I'm told that the ... for her meal. From left to right: Admissions intern Marivel Oropeza ... to campus, and that's exactly what happened. Last night, before the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  compelling poems, and get a better sense for what I want my poetry to be. For ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there are problems where you might need to keep trying for an infinite amount

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it ... for the rest of the day; I didn’t have much to do. For dinner, I eat ... heading to Kresge for an improv workshop with Roadkill Buffet, MIT’s improv

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  that I basically stole his intellectual property. Way to be. =) Now for ... . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... . As for how they find the time without getting caught...well I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005