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• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... actually follow it or not, at least allows me to calm down and start doing ... I took as many as I could at once. So, yeah, I know my stuff, y’all--at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange ... rage, trying to shower and brush and have breakfast and dress up at the ... outside, staring in unbroken awe at the air. I don’t know how long it took

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a ... , for whatever reason, really good at acting like an MIT student." Me ... scheduled to rehearse the duet with the Vocal Director (Ashley, who works at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  very many people in the class (it was ~200, at a time when 3.091 had so ... taking bio early (other than gloating at helping my roommates with their ... reading in the certain thread at College Confidential back in April, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those ... . Usually there are college Fellows present who dine at the head table. This ... sings Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs and gives speeches

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  them as presents at New Year's now - I've gone through The Far Side ... a single word), Sudoku, and so many more. Sometimes I even have two at ... lot more difficult if you don't enjoy what you're doing. But at the same

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  survived my flight into Logan Airport, even though I didn't think I would at right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located ... cowtown girl at that. I have very little common sense, and when I got here I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing ... attaining his PhD, Peter began working at MIT in 1984 in a number of different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  on metal and mortars at Pompeii, set Tetazoo loose upon society ... two-week research trip to Italy, I naturally jumped at the chance. [caption id="attachment_101187" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] waiting at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job ... ultimately true. If the instinct to war and to act in our self-interest at any

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  .                      I’ve been putting off writing. This was meant to be at least three blogs. The classes I took fall and spring as two blogs to be published at ... published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be

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

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  -hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  years at mit, i can say i feel more settled into myself than ever before. i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... breakfast at brookline lunch with antara and supporting each other through the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... something different results, I cross-registered into the equivalent class at

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  fall, my obsession continues.  So when walking back from dinner at New ... having revisited the movie in my first month at MIT, the themes were stark ... , researching potential classes I could take, looking at majors I knew I would

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... comprehensive list, but there should be at least one useful tip. Think of this ... I'm a Project Manus Mentor, you may even see me at an orientation or

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  magazine hand-out at the student center, but this year, the board chose to ... arts at MIT. Put together over the course of the year by a team of ... . [caption id="attachment_89596" align="aligncenter" width="634"] mit gala at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at ... in mind.   doing more stuff Everyone I’ve met at MIT has an attitude of “just do it”. “Why the hell are you psetting at 4am?” “Dunno, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  at home or on campus relaxing, doing a micro-internship or a ... ="origami club at MIT"]origaMIT[/annotation] meetings. I am also trying to get an ... . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and ... characters and setting.  I also met another MechE student at MIT who writes ... of the readings than I have at any MIT class. However, they also graded

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023