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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  doing this: I'm working really hard to get better. And just by ... had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... , oh, you're graduating this semester. You need to write an essay." Turns

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... through action. It is good to know where the moon is, but you’ll never get ... off to work in New Zealand instead of grinding away on problem sets in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , I wanted to try a new route for getting there. Instead of walking ... pendants and rings. Through DesignPlus, I also get 24 hour access to its ... pumpkin patch sale to raise money. I was told that the best way to get in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... decided where you're going to live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  'd go to events to meet new people whenever possible and seize every ... to new music. my schedule shifted from sleeping around 1 am and waking ... most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  and the court gets all muddy and before you know it your pants are wet ... , helpful things to guests. As I walked by the security tent at the foot of ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  he’s been asked to be by his family and his nation, the parasite. While ... get to choose whether or not they’re going to be the person they are, or the person they were taught to be by their family, their friends, their

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  . * "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin. * McDonald's plans to open 20 ... hot sauce manufacturing company, to obtain a perfect score on Pacman. * The Doughnutgate Incident, in which New Jersey Devils' coach Jim

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  has been driving me to get up and about. Some things I've been up to ... that I'd never actually been down by the harbor or to the financial ... for $25. As I didn't get around to doing the paperwork until mid

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  War, according to his bio on the GEL website. Diane, who supervises ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  . As it happens, they turned out to be right. Listen to your elders, kids ... that all my psets got done, and I learned that it’s okay to get an extension from S^3 when you’re literally too hosed to function. There are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically ... your job is really, really conducive to doing it very well. It's pretty

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming/editing/etc. If you're curious, here is the Buzzfeed article I mentioned (I'm still ... working to get more artists to lecture here. (I still have a tiny bit of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  to ask? Comment your questions in. (By the way, I probably won't change ... elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... responding to your questions from last entry, and the Burton 1 Cribs entry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  Institute by working here. We have a lot of catching up to do and lots of new ... About four years ago, I ended my very last blog post as a student by ... forward a few years, when Matt mentions that Admissions is creating a new

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  see a machine churn out a derivative of your work, to know that a soulless language model trained on snippets of your soul to produce said ... here (and I suspect that the government will move to enact new

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I ... previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring Committee. I'm pleased to say that they also have some pretty good taste

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  took a few days to get the essential furniture set up. Boxes were so ... to get our common spaces more together, though. The living room was in ... guess we'll get it whenever one of us feels un-hosed enough to take the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be ... is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006