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  The reading season begins

  

  suggest the folks at the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company... you may not ... admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... disability affect your time at MIT?” “It didn’t. Well, I mean. I couldn’t let ... . At MIT, with these flowers comes the optimism of students. They signify

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is ... . fun. – Be Calm 8. fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be) 9. fun. – Take Your Time (Coming Home) From fun. At the time I called

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  ’ve gone on since starting at MIT. I am nervous, but I am also very, very, excited. True to form, I’ve arrived at South Station perhaps a little ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  until a month later. Look at this image! This just looks so generic. Lots ... intend at all to do the scavenger hunt (which you should, it’s fun!) then ... weird curve that you couldn’t see around, the whole nine yards. CJ: At

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  and soon afterwards Panic! at the Disco. This then started a three year Panic! at the Disco phase where I made an Instagram account for it (~7k ... : We have the emos and the very typical bandom beats Panic! at the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  . The first, sent at 9:29am, was from Chris, saying that Emad and I had ... event tickets. At 10:00am and 11:28am respectively, an e-mail came in from Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  at Princeton. Today was MIT's commencement, and our speaker was Sal ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... working at a startup in San Francisco when the announcement came out in 2001

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  good 6+ weeks before May 1. I cannot promise at this juncture that ... class that doesn't connect with you.) This will not affect your chances at ... my school's programming and quiz team at certain competitions called

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... suite/floor/hall, or will they return to their rooms only at the end of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  get back at it. So among a bunch of other goals, I told [annotation note ... . And that’s no shade to him at all! He told me that I say I’m going to do ... now sitting at a piano, trudging through learning to play. A friend or

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  : Course 8 (Physics) Okay I never seriously considered physics while at MIT ... 't push it as far as saying enjoyment."]I do not like physics at all ... resonated with me and something I could see myself doing that is at least a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  , you have to at least look into it, right?” the first place i looked was ... server. the 1st meet was at the new balance track, which is a super fancy ... this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  between who I am today at 27, and who I was then at 17, I don’t feel as if I ... ’m still a student, but not at MIT, and not for much longer. I’m still a ... , I’ve been working on my Masters of Architecture down the river at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  , whether they’re just great at planning things with friends or don’t really ... be great at mirroring the dynamic of residential friendships. If of my ... is free at any given time. Again, since we're focusing on the "group

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  mighty in the S-tier. Sometimes classes at MIT feel difficult for the sake ... what they meant at that time]." Steve immediately rattled off ... I wasn't at another class or at a Spinning Arts related thing or

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  curls and incline sit ups. A few weekends ago, at 1PM on a Saturday (most ... reasons for this. For one, at this point in the semester, I had a growing ... extracurriculars in the last semester, and I was slightly annoyed at myself for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  . Or at least I think I got it right. I ordered them online, so it was ... , it turned out fine. After that day, I got way better at applying them ... loc at the base of my braid, passing a crochet needle up through the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags ... would be absolutely amazing to be at for 4 years. Overall, I had a very ... and resulted in me mainly looking at the positive elements without any

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  computer science class you take at MIT and it features weekly labs (they ... key presses as I'm anxiously bent over my computer, staring at the ... mistake of taking two classes that occur at the same time, 8.021 and 18

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020