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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot ... short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT student” (if such a thing even exists!) – for starters, check out the shirt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch ... ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... . For my classes with synchronous lectures, I never missed a single one. I ... energy it took to do all these things was always quite a bit. It didn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... have actually met in person before (when that was still a thing that ... the time. Regardless, I discovered I'd developed a bit of a blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  ’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I experienced my CPW, two years ago, through a downpour. I was temped at MacGregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a college freshman ... other incredibly cool people :)). If you’re a high school student living in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  *written by Sharon L. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of ... out, it’s a pretty involved process that involves passing components ... this summer is tackling. Tulip, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab Lumin

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  had a custom nametag made by Abby ’17 in which we suggested conversation ... this past IAP teaching at a liceo scientifico in Mantova, Italy, which is a beautiful city with a lot of history. There is no language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if ... Thanksgiving day, we went to Chinatown for Thanksgiving dinner and had a ... an institution is a little hard to explain. I'll give you this instead

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day ... notes I take in a typical week of classes.  2.086- Numerical Computation ... and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same ... never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... uncle, I'm proud to be a Korean. But I've never really held any negative

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... stubborn (or too persistent*?) *I once asked a friend what distinguishes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  before the May 1st deadline." No worries - we will mail in mid-march, a ... : "I have served my local community service center (a mix of old age home and underpriviliged children and mentally impaired people) for a very

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Next weekend will be a busy time for us all ... 've enlisted the help of a great group of current students' parents called Parent ... those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after ... GERMANY!! To entertain you, though, here are a few random finals quotes that ... until 5! I'm such a slacker!" "Did you finish [the 10.37 exam]?" "No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a ... to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver ... I noticed that TCM (Turner Classic Movies) was holding a month

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006