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  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  A couple months ago, Petey posted the blogger application, and a few ... soul I know)…It was just as deliberate and emotionally draining as a ... Pong Champion. He is a sucker for Maseeh’s cookies, drones, and creeping

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  , right? Nope, they're not. If you took a student-guided tour here, a common ... usually travel on a daily basis, I want to cover as much as I can. I want to ... a place to me over the past semester/several months: even though it is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  #Commencement #MITAlumni A post shared by MIT Admissions (@mitadmissions) on Jun 8 ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the ... privileges and obligations that a place like MIT confers and also a place like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee ... , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from ... work out at Stanford   h a c k e d   then stop by the Stupid

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  is (seemingly) taking more. I came across a previous blogger's post ... working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a cla—' Stop ... productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  education through OpenCourseWare. Then came edX, a massive online open course ... equivalent of a textbook.”  This week, a panel of four MITx ... classes at MIT as part of a series of xTalks hosted by the Office of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... majors, in a lengthy exchange of experiences and ideas. Discovering algebraic groups with a friend at midnight before a biology pset is due may

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... to look back on all that happened and express to you a bigger picture ... ’s a lot less about moving far from the physical location that was my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  , 2013, an excited young blogger published a heartfelt post gleefully ... called Two Truths and a Lie, that blogger was me, and today I'm a slightly older still-excited blogger who published a heartfelt blog post gleefully

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2 ... ; knit a scarf I wish I knew how to knit. Anything else you want to say or ... : this is in the Imperial Aeronautics department. imho choosing a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a semester because Mechanical Engineering has a special program). The ... Potter (Cliche, I know...). Although leaving MIT for even a semester seemed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... so, we went to the lobby to check out and get a cab to the airport. I ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... , with a long flowing white beard), (2) mechanical engineering has replaced ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  because I enjoy life-pondering and expressing it, I’ve also been taking a great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems ... the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  :28 p.m., you probably experienced a barrage of feelings. These might ... being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember doing a couple of anxious dances and taking a few deep breaths before I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... Chinese dinners with my relatives for a week was great! Still, nothing ... ALUM. I ate delicious Chick-fil-a and Tex-Mex food. I played (and lost

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012