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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... looked forward to about finishing high school. But with classic Asian

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... you know that the original Uncle Sam was born near Boston?) I headed to MIT's campus to take some pictures of MIT"s newest sport. I started out

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... happy and wistful to watch my fellow students bump and set and spike, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  humanities? My response is if they want to spend four years studying 18th ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... to blog. I moved to Burton-Conner this year, which, much like East Campus, has very different floor cultures, so I'm very happy to say that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... political science and economics), and then go to law school. Actually, surveys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like ... . =) Personally though, I'm just going to skip right along to.... 7.012, which is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but ... to speed (not literally, Mom - I promise) over to the nearest Au Bon Pain, only to find out that they were out of chocolate chip cookies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I’m desperate to avoid blogging, and I blog whenever I should be studying. At the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who ... to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  bajillion mailing lists and never bothers to take themselves off of any of ... location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets to have it. Items range from the boring (old clothes, magazines, etc

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  -made-a-teeny-computer-count-in-hexadecimal and now we're making a car alarm system that ticks some timers and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  rehearsal, “We’re going to Brazil!” Suddenly, samba music began blasting from ... works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have happened in 2020 if COVID hadn’t appeared and disrupted everything. Thanks to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision ... openness to talent, and a long tradition of national service — I believe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it to inspire people to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Here's the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016