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• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  Japanese couple who loves to travel (the grandmother, at 67 years, is ... stare too hard at "interestingly attired" young people in Harajuku - and ... . :) Although I'm still not qualified to comment on what it's like to spend IAP at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... May 1, and my entire AP Government class cheered. And we do not at this ... , Maritza '03, mentioned at practice one day that her boss was looking for new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... that are parked on a small ramp at the end of the match. Teams get 6 jam-packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all ... Kai being athletic now,” S said. I thrilled at the idea of one of my old ... at our respective colleges. We swam at the beach and went to J’s place

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  at another school, and I'd say, "Well, I really don't like that, so I ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... —I mean, in South Dakota, it snows in late September, or early October at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  addition to this post. We also recently performed our Brazilian music at MIT ... hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split into several different tour groups; my group started at the main

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  seven(!) guest artists and three guest speakers. At the time, I thought it ... performances. At the end of that fall semester, we read through a set of ... very little bandwidth to marvel at this phenomenon because I’d failed to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  aggressively bad at reading maps. Notoriously, infamously, comically bad at it ... . The biggest tree on the Courtyard at the end of the infinite. These ... at MIT, though. My old room, number 351, in Next House. It was

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... been struggling to find time for it. At the beginning of every semester I ... trying to decide what it is and if I want it to change at all. At the very

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  to say that at some point in last night's studying, around 3 AM, I went ... something twists in the viewer's chest. The main character is at their lowest ... MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  at our respective colleges. For the 24th and 25th, I spent time at the house. I saw my cousin, a senior at USC, and we caught up. She said she ... Santa Monica to see Emma and we spent the day together at the Promenade

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  . And because I have no will-power, when they smiled at me, I smiled back ... looked at the address… A Michigan Address. After a quick conversation ... major upsides No Rent - I get to live at my parents’ house for exactly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  lot while at MIT, from freshman orientation until now. I did not have the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... at the student center. Emmanuel is also highly active in the African

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at ... students in 1971, 25,000 enrolled, and this at a time when the total student ... for conventional university. At the OU, the qualifications that the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer ... item: i am so, so bad at remembering finance terms--need to start taking notes. most are easy to intuit but difficult to remember and retrieve at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a ... me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  given, is at least common enough. I hoped my intellect and my abilities ... at least a little independently and without meaningless restrictions. But what occurred was much more than that. I am the youngest intern at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  counting down to the next bus. (The Silver Line stops at each terminal ... other people on the bus will get off. Get off at South Station. Behind you ... each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  GOODNESS!" At some point, our director told us that he assigned roles based ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... didn't delete it, though. I let it sit in my inbox and stare up at me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd ... at least one slam or three (or many more), or an open mic (or even both ... remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011