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  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  engineer." So this blogger Googled "what is a good engineering school", and ... , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black scrawl, I wrote my full name, my flight number, my phone number, and a ... the Nashville International Airport, which was a foreign place that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  ; a few years ago there were widespread protests against google busing ... at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  : your admissions decision does not in any way reflect your worth. A ... . Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision ... . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  Every once in a while something so noteworthy comes along that it ... take a trip to Hasbro's world headquarters, conveniently located in nearby Rhode Island (which is about a 1 hour drive from MIT). Thursday came

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... ? Internships as a 6-9 (Anything you want!) Example internships I've had ... ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... what’s next. It’s literally “a” and “new”. A new… what? You may be ... state other than “violently joyful?” Like, I feel I could explode into a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two-year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  wall, and each one has a story, so this took me many hours of reminiscing and a little bit of googling to jog my memory. I hope you enjoy. I ... ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... contaminated part off and drop it in this big yellow disposal bin with a caution

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c ... ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé, to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... after their junior years. A professor at the university where Asia was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  MIT 2024s for mentorship and camaraderie based on a Google preference ... because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up ... originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five ... getting a triple would be a nightmare. But I got lucky because we all have ... the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  : 1) Google's homepage. 2) My favorite constellation is the APOD ... sailing. Before you argue with that, go spend a few hours lying outside, and let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  actually made a blank google doc. I guess I have been afraid that when I ... bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  unleash words onto a google doc shortly. WMBR Shirt Yet another ... After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not write a mere sentence for months on the blogs. This makes the 6-month

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new freshman experience class (21M.013J/21A.113J) which I hope that some of you ... server). In my spare time, I work front desk at Random Hall and am a Summer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008