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• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... wearing. With so many more people walking by all the time, I started to ... walkable. I don’t need the subway to get groceries, or go shopping, or even

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... likely to hear things like ". . . at 6 and then head to the game . . ." or

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  remember lining up to get onto the stage, walking down after getting my ... , the answer isn't to get rid of the pain. Didn't I say earlier that the ... knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup ... break doing this: Okay, they didn’t actually pay us to goof around the whole day -- mostly, we were going through an introduction to the company

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  almost forgotten the incredible amount of work it took for me to get here ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  . this means nothing. i did, however, get to both play in the snow with my ... attempt to pick these fragments out of the haze for you—because each of them ... ! they played Beyond the Sea, a song my dad used to sing to me as a kid

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  batteries  – all things necessary for the light from this paragraph to be ... (since the year 2000) that enable you to read this blog post. Brilliant ... post, it is almost certainly powered by one of the following three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  the world. The goal when we started was to get to 25% of the world ... Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  , the campers began to open up one by one and share their thoughts and ... things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up ... that should rightfully go to the extremely awesome '14s (seriously, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading contemporary artist. Some are photographs, like the original by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who ... until I found a way to get back into the hallway. After receiving ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  that the earliest I can start is in August? (I like to get things done ... /22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have to send the December scores again or will collegeboard still be sending

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  given to the stranger who brushes by you on the sidewalk.  In these times ... occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... to signage, posting on their windows and doors to let the outside world

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  't, and shouldn't, be a list of 'things to do to get into MIT.' Though the ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  or brush it aside, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details from ... , sigh, and shut the fridge. Two minutes later, I return to the fridge ... ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... last year of blogging the year I started thinking about applying to MIT ... with Facebook, I shot off an email to Mitra and Sam with the subject

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  attempt at getting to know the whole student?" Absolutely. The more context ... qualified it is "purely match" that gets you in - but keep in mind that the ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  best to look at everything I was seeing. I had There She Goes by The La ... memory can work like this. By the end of January, I was beginning to ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... Books by working on MacBooks. I loved the (almost) annoying extent to which ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024