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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  are important, but I did not enter research to make a small change, I ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... ideas could be anything: sharpening a t-cell to pierce cancer cells, using

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to ... to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or ... ” neighborhood, closer to a grocery store, and with a greater density of coffee

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  -year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... costume I had to explain to quite literally every person who passed me by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to keep ourselves sane by exercising a lot and reminding ourselves that this ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... ) College Network and managed to both plan and execute a five-state/25 ... the highway turned out to be quite a highlight; one of the best parts of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down. Wednesday ... against Wellesley. We had set a goal this year to not only win the regular ... the night. Our teammate Meagan R. ‘24 shattered a 20-year-old record by

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  : well, the point i wanted to make was that the planning was a coping ... it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... of things to make you feel better. cj: snark later! at least introduce

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... internet or even snail mail, but by Hermes, the messenger god. It was a ... emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  assignments and learning content makes it so that you have to keep doing assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you ... mess (me). One benefit of having to walk a long way from Next House to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  how to make nanoparticle without wasting a bunch of expensive particle ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a celebratory ... was thinking about how to diversify their class by race, income level ... compared to a farm kid in North Dakota? They have nothing in common.  I think

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  exiting traditional education entirely. So it was a lot to make sense of all ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... and trying to put together a freshman class? Chris Peterson: I think we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a ... home to many a transgenic fruit fly and is slightly remniscent of Amy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be ... are designed by the higher beings that pretend to rule over the planet

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... fully explicate, this semester has been a blur, passing by faster than I ... way from pre-registering classes to finals… A parallel (or antithesis

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six ... whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm. In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has ... has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final construction plans, to establish a government system and to begin the dorm

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  on a team Fellowship project initiated by the PSC... You do not need to ... Fellowship -- you would "need to identify a community or community organization ... to produce a detailed project proposal and supervision plan." c

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... only ever been able to do this passively, eg. via being a good listener

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022