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• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more ... returned to Finland and set a new 10K world record that stood for 13 years

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... ? Do you know what message that sends to a student like myself entering a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  bustling, 24/7 lifestyle. No longer could I afford to spend hours on a single ... easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a ... welcoming. I started to feel a bit better. The weekend went on as I struggled ... was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty ... th president, Dr. L. Rafael Reif, is a member of First Gen!
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  dough-snakes into pebble-sized dough nodules use a rolling pin to ... to a pan and putting the dumpling in make sure to cover the pan so ... boils again, then add a splash of cold water to stop the boiling wait

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  Tube channel - on everything from squid skin with a mind of its own to growing ... like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... entire blog post without periodically saving it (I like to live on the edge

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... order, which often happens on surveys we're asked to fill out. It ... scary.) Now, there are a couple of side notes to some of these majors. A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  went on a couple field trips to learn about climate initiatives and ... new exercises, doing movements with a different tempo, or focusing on ... a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that backlog into January. Do not send a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  Petroleum Institute, a majority of US voters would prefer to rely on oil ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a ... on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  you’re a Current Student or Alum: Make new MIT friends and welcome ... the new adMITs. What I’ve said so far is not based on just one personal ... MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  resonates more than this exchange. We were walking back to our hotel after a ... advice to you.” Me: “What is?” Hardi: “Stop giving a shit.” We split and went to our hotel rooms. "Norms" and "status quo" have taken a backseat

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  . Tuesdays used to be a glorious time. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Gates lobby ... produce sources have become a lot more scattered. I’ve been relying on the ... bins to stock up on grains and nuts. Around Boston Haymarket Location: 96

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  wanted to work on for 2.75--we’ll develop each project idea into a ... . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  for me to leave for vacation on a high note. (That's right, vacation ... being a total drain on the reputation of females everywhere, and then she opened her locker and a dead guy fell out on top of her and I was like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... currently sprawled open to reveal a typical sight. 18 hours remaining! must

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... until I found a way to get back into the hallway. After receiving ... , while his companion called out to me and said “HE WORKED ON THE APOLLO 11

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014