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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  price of a subcompact. Dude. I opened the door and was flooded with "new ... car for hours at a time on busy city streets, where dings and scratches ... gave me some good feedback on my presentation - two things to be exact. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  pasted on the side of a bus. Having a dedicated 5+ hours/week to really ... atmosphere of a new film or the wide variety of fan-produced content ranging ... exactly Twitch Plays Pokemon managed to develop not only a following of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... ~, where I interacted exclusively with my parents and online friends on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  back and forth on a bus ride to New York, but I could sense that I would ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive ... fulfilling work, if I ever get a handle on it myself. I said this to my mom

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  ends there as a new era starts. But what happens when you start to get ... , interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask ... treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  , to the strangers I made dinner with after a final, on a floor of East ... , to do research—rather than to do tasks on a fixed timeline, and I can ... hold a knife and butter a turkey and how to make a meal for over a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  so. Drenched in sweat, I tried to unbox my bedding and put it on a bed ... and ID on a lanyard, which I cringe thinking about) and started to walk ... 'd yet to navigate on my own. At the ticket counter, I said goodbye to my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  home to Oregon and New Mexico and a stint in Stellenbosch, South Africa ... and journal and plan read a little bit, daydream a little get to work ... once or twice a week Guidelines “The only dream worth having is to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  having to actually vote, which was a really nice conclusion to the ... the way, let's focus on the positive and introduce our new bloggers. In ... front-runner for his major. He's excited to find a UROP, join Assassin

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... managed to wrangle the money away. Then a bunch of people around a poker

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be classified as violent assault. Students even get a discount on the classes, so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  the moment demands of us The Executive Order on Friday appeared to me a ... in response to Trump's immigration freeze on seven nations. MIT has 38 ... video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  the privilege to interact with the new cool kids on the block. Can ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion ... a "bluebernie" kombucha on tap flavor). I go to StarMarket in Porter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  not, I hope you'll drop me a line here on the blog to say hi. And if you ... to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to ... to be a relatively quiet time for admissions officers now?? Thank you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  mentality, I got on a plane to be back in my beautiful Chi Town!! I took the ... telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, that it's overwhelming to narrow it down to one or

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... Parisian and Earth Dance, while I've chosen a somewhat bolder palette of New ... complement a delicate celery-green curtain she found, while I'm trying to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  not to sign a contract to appear on MTV's The Real World: Boston (season ... 'll be away on vacation and unable to post it. I also don't have time to ... totally awesome to write a blog entry that day and encourage people to watch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  were staying at a house on Coronado Island, so we had to either ferry or ... were planning on going there. however, a lot of people in my group ... joined them—I decided that going to California with a ton of people would

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022