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• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  from Chinese recipes that my mother sends me when I ask her for help ... one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  stating what you read in the textbook. For example, often bio exams ... freshmen are taught to memorize phylum names and label parts of a plant for ... ." ---- Without further ado, here are the "finalists" for the photo contest from, uh

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  everyday life after playing the game for a while. I remember I had trouble ... posters for this movie called it “The game you couldn’t put down. The story ... the news, Ceri suggested I interview Fractal for the blogs. So I did

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard of for MIT prefrosh to write guest blogs before CPW. Cam's situation is ... intersection of my life and MIT – which is surprisingly large for a high school

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  Coverage" A big thanks to Chris Merrill '12 for sending me the group photo ... Rockstar (Part 1): July 29 / August 2, 2005 Ben was well-known not just for admissions, but also for rocking out... "I'm A Famous Rockstar" That title is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  eduroam, I had an internet connection without even trying. I waited for my ... crowdsourcing to give real-time bus tracking, but it was also useful for paying ... and ginataan for my ILG, ET, and that it wasn't a total disaster. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It ... way there, then stop by a QuickPrint station in the Infinite for paper to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... for good. They nurtured my love for learning in and of itself. Plus ... , but my respect for him is very real. I wouldn't have been surprised if

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork ... ’s oil painting "Nonchaloir". I made this as a homework assignment for 21M ... sad to me now that for the past year, I’ve been making very slow

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... implements pass/no record for this first semester for a reason and that's so ... ? Should you really be striving for all 100%'s at the cost of your mental

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for several thousand years but is exiled for his predictions by the sitting

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  President Reif's convocation. MIT had an awesome birthday gift for me: The Math Diagnostic Test for Physics Placement. After a fairly gloomy ninety ... birthday wishes, and, in the case of my youngest brother, request for a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Google in NYC ☺ With my sister now entering her junior year at MIT, in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... on an intramural basketball team for about 3 semesters now! We play in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  note="Fatima: For some reason, I did not send this question to any of the ... and CS, and I watch anime and [annotation note="know an xkcd for every ... ’s occasionally competition for jobs or prizes, but competition is not the point of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  wrote that. This is why for the most part my past blogs aren’t deeply ... things I’ve made. I had a plan for how and when I’d finish writing. The ... Communication Fundamentals When I signed up for this class, courseroad marked it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... aforementioned mud flats[/caption] I did a little bit of reading for the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023