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• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a ... opportunity I couldn't pass up. I took a leap of faith and was ready to be out

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  Part 1 in a timely manner (as close to November 1 as possible), materials ... -258-8304. Again, be patient, as faxed materials take a day or two to process. As you ... received a week or two after the deadline will be reviewed and will not make

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... whom agree: making such a statement isn’t wrong, but they would never say

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  ; This semester has been by far the toughest, most challenging to date ... 've constantly reminded myself that I didn't come to MIT expecting easy. It was by ... I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... to drop a class, don't worry." I did not. I took six classes, and I ... a class to listener; I am auditing the class now. Three. Now, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... black people can relate to each other and speak to each other - it's a culture. and it's a culture i, a canadian jew who went to majority white and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  shirt and shorts or pants. All the time, unless I was going to a formal. I ... to a place with an actual winter are scoffing at me right now, but cut ... home, if you chose to use toilet paper rather than a bidet, you threw it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  incredibly aware about my own. I could make a whole separate blogpost about ... the very first time. I remember making a big show out of it, wanting ... and a feeling of cowardice and defeat. When I finally came to college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours ... . Just a few hours ago, I put all our study sessions to the test as I took

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything ... analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class ... during Splash, you can get your feet wet with a short introduction to any
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  a telling laugh my first introduction to psets, and realized that I ... I had a WEEK to do, only had 5 problems. This was going to be a piece ... they have way more time to finish a task then they need does, and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  mile to make sure they were okay. My mom made a comment that "我们家的人一直很坚强 ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a ... intrigue, mysticism, and references to the classics. Is it a little corny ... announced, I found myself excited by the concept: sentient cities? A fantasy

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As ... writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... and see what happens during day-to-day life that would help make that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write ... prompt, because, like, life, but I did make it through a lot of them. When ... year round, but I will try to write a bit more in the future, I think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José ... MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a ... , then parents. My friends Sameer (a junior at Stanford, who went to middle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  year for freshman hall rush, I decided to beautify my room by letting the ... tapestry was necessary afterwards. By the way, it is technically not a ... 22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little ... pretty.) A big part of orgo is trying to synthesize molecules using a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  make a sauce to dip the shrimp in. Remove the shrimp as soon as the ... and you have to add more milk to make the last few crepes. Spread a ... it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  , surrounded by friends. I’m wandering  intermittently to the free food table ... willing to be distracted.   We strung a hammock from the ceiling me balancing on someone’s shoulders to tie the knots. A course 6 sophomore

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021