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• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what ... met lots of people during Orientation, but I didn't really get to know ... get out of your room. Close those books, stop checking Facebook, take a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  well those plans were working for me.) Of course, you're welcome to drop in on your advisor at any time to discuss classes, grad school ... exactly with it on the classes needed to get there. Students who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that happens here is that oftentimes there isn't enough time to get it all down ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  meant to get along very well was a very valuable life lesson. When I came ... enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  've personally found myself a lot less inclined to go out and get a quick coffee ... guilty no matter how little or big the purchase. Still, if you're able to ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  not after I made sure we had a map, because it's really easy to get lost ... didn't get to go to any when I was in high school, this was actually my first. You'll get plenty of chances to do all sorts of neat things once

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  there's no need to fight your way in line and be worried at 60 that your ... weeks pass I'll get a better feel for this place. Maybe even start to fit ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  game, to someone to open your heart to despite whatever anxiety you feel ... your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than ... your mouth you’re able to tap into a beautiful, fulfilling connection, to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  months after graduating, to keep getting it wrong when I went to put my ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... students to get through it.  … They made me feel like everything was going to ... , temperate weather of Boston? How's family? Your brother still asking you to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . Every day, I am grateful that I get to spend time around them and spend ... only do you move on to campus earlier and get more time to get acquainted ... of the week. Me: You're not gonna mention ZBT? R: What is there to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  school, we stressed about not being qualified enough to get into the ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... [annotation note="feel free to vent about your application

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to ... Athena lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  , and had to get back to school) (through this cool library network we ... to get through all 10 this time. So far, I have... Nonfiction: The ... found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  since getting kicked off, I’ve tried to turn it from the jumbled mess of ... are much longer than the others.) Of course, things continue to get ... of preparation and hard work. Not getting to see the smiling faces of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  blogger to learn to swim (you’re welcome).  The day after I got to campus ... get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023