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• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  gone wrong. And I had so much moving and growing to make up for ... amazing to just be able to deal with problems that used to make me break ... getting the chance made me all the more determined to actually make

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... , it's necessary to record your observations, so I whipped out some ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own ... of being in a fraternity when the time comes around, but to your ... this, get to know the people. The letters don't make a fraternity, the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  people can end up where they want to be. It all starts with your temporary ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your ... on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  following: Blog/writing stuff Provide a link to your "portfolio." This ... keep blogs are the most active bloggers and best make the transition to ... freshmen) possibilities of your major.‚Ä® Tell us what activities hope to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the ... about you and you get to teach them about what makes you different and ... really good time to get in touch with your EC to set up an interview. The

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  -9000's, and your Terminators. I decided to knock out all three 6-4 math ... professors teaching this term, so I've been making an effort to pay attention ... 'm also making an effort to camp out in office hours more. I'm 500% more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  , someone is always going to undercut you and counter your "I only got 5 hours ... . Training.   There you go, you're now on your first step to becoming ... Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once ... would allow you to do awesome research as an undergrad. Has this been your ... valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for ... constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... , society and the environment. Thanks to the Nobel website for the description ... exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  would be to finish your applications way early to avoid all of the stress ... ) Examples are good. Be specific. Make sure to choose teachers who actually know you to write your letters of recommendation. You may even want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  hard it is to make a circle on an etch-a-sketch! CNC lets you design ... my schedule, but now it's time to show just what I've been busy with ... , meaning that we learn to *gasp* manufacture and machine things. MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  lab comes from your checkoff, which you can complete by going to an open ... exam make up the brunt of your 24.09 grade, but my weekly workload for ... that’s the way it has to or should be: I still make an effort to balance

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  blog posts as I wanted to make. I have little bursts of creativity ... -hour access to the studio but no one telling you what to make or when ... make something, do it--or decide to do it--right then. That's my advice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  cutting your fingernails? Makes ya think, doesn't it? People goof around ... Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  to finish off the weekend. If you're a prefrosh, come by! If you're not ... late-night crepe-making on Friday Breakfast, board games, 23.001: Intro to Hippie Stereotypes, DIY clothing workshop, telephone pictionary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Check out these t ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I should work on to make my writing better? No one had ever said that to me ... , where you make reference to it. Summarize your points at the end of each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010