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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  have a flag that was truly ours. None of has had clothes to wear on ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  . I had to look up which way was forward on a [annotation note="i feel ... consider to be “the most exciting thing i did over CPW.”   I stole a ... to MIT campus. I went there a few weeks ago and ended up buying a VHS

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  a plant, I need a certain amount of sunshine to thrive. And on sunny ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a ... what already exists, always eager to make progress on the goals and ... to talk rather than do. On more than one occasion, I've taken on more

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  working like new anyway...and then I did not attempt to install Ubuntu on it ... equipped for the work I wanted to do on it, become a daily annoyance almost ... , dropping a ton of money on a fancy machine before showing up to college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  . Anyway, this is a long-winded piece on my class to say that yes this class ... go for 3 hours on Saturdays. I am trying to be a part of MIT Lecture ... reading and cheers to a new semester.

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... to create a model for global engagement for students and their partner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful ... (towards the end of the camp, the counselors try to do 30 distinct proofs on ... 't flood you with pictures from Mathcamp. Suffice it to say that it was a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  'm low-key still busy. Next week I have two essays due, a short story to write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is ... e d o m. That's going to be a full-on TKO. So maybe "bored" was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  May, Olivia Rodrigo came to Boston on her sour tour. The online ... was alight with chatter: it was obviously going to be a vicious battle for tickets. Olivia was a teenage wunderkind who had somehow managed to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a ... to link to a while back about technical theater at MIT (you did know we have a Theater Depatment, right?). More to come...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  refusing to take no for an answer - he finally agreed to let me join on a ... “kickoff day,” where a brand-new challenge is revealed and teams are given a limited amount of time to design, build, and program a robot to compete. The

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  a step, your foot does not actually rise to the height of the new step ... rather than upwards to escape the top step. taking two steps at a time on ... you to literally fall down a flight of stairs while remaining on your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... to work with other people. Choosing a dorm that fits you is also

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... , if only life were always this easy. a love letter to polyhedral

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... . Furthermore, I have plenty of reasons to write now. On the one hand, being a ... class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  , on the Khan Academy website.   ... Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online ... , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  . Essentially, once a week we work on how to convey motion through a series of ... alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... 'm too afraid to jinx myself by making some general statement about MIT. On

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012