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  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not ... about a white elephant right now. Maybe, like me, your brain would do

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... about her awesome film-making job) and a visiting film crew from ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... exams and potentially life-altering decisions like declaring a major, it ... weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  google ^^;) 5. The Headmaster is charming and has a twinkle in his eyes ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that ... impromptu but educational field trip, because c'mon, a real. life. performance

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The fact that MIT has over 450 student groups, ranging from a Rubik's Cube

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some awesome YouTube videos Or eat a Vermonster with your friends. ("editor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  've run fifteen miles and walked about ten, so I'm just a little bit burned ... forgot where it was entirely. Next time, I'll get a picture and blog it. I ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  Student Center. Holly is a Comparative Media Studies major, skilled ... together? One multimedia experience that is both a deeper look into her ... because it was like the day before, and so I Googled “How to Name your

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  air; you are at least 90% sure that nothing would happen. A google ... idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... street, where a massive CNC machine chatters and hums. You’re breathing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  this time was going to Fogo de Chao (a Brazilian Steakhouse) with the ... has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far? Swimming student-athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT has been an incredible

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... . A lot of the time, the highlights of my day and the events that I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... as an international student. Recruiting season feels like a make ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... Everything. This is just me being a hopeless perfectionist. MIT has forced me ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  orientation/recruitment events. It's been a lot of fun, but also quite ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what ... were placed in dorms based on a ranking form they filled out. From Aug 31

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... Munroe does more than draw comics: he recently published a book

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday ... like a French ballade Constantly written, never finished.   I am from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020