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  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... on your tracking system yet. As Quinton says, "She'll be apples." At ... questions... Pia writes, "Last summer I interned at a Neuroscience Lab. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  MIT admissions process look at this as a factor? Why? It seems to me ... , that I work at MIT, and the deadlines for our summer programs are fast ... had heard of (remember, the Internet was in its infancy at the time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a ... with some roommates on the Skyline Trail (a much larger struggle at 12 ... nagging at me as I start turning hiking into a hobby. First is a feeling of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in ... Robotics group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, although we're in different ... post. I arrived at Logan International with Anika through a shared Uber

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year ... programming, here’s a year in review of what STARS Ambassadors at MIT have been ... students bring).Our next webinar is May 14, 2025 at 7pm EDT, where we’ll be

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  , but I feel like we're connected on at least some minor spiritual level ... little things I actually had to keep but never wanted to look at ... for with really-ugly-free-t-shirts-that-I-only-wear-to-bed-and-embarrassingly-to-the-bathroom-at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  friends drop you off at your home at the end of the night, but don't get out ... romantic and angry at the world. Cherish these nights while you still have ... . Obtain an MIT ID upon landing at freshman orientation with that awkward

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  body at one time.  While I won’t be dying to zombified piglins or ... every day, regardless of how busy or exhausted I am, I make at least one chin-up attempt. Whether that means sneaking one in at the Next House gym

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... at once is a nightmare. i barely remember the weeks i spent finishing ... , but we all never had time to see it. thanks, MIT—at least all of us were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen. "I can't publish this," I think, "I can't even look at it." I close the ... weird when they looked at the other bloggers and realized they were the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  the section about the MIT.nano courses offered over IAP. At this point ... year seemed unreal. Especially at no cost. I hurriedly signed up, not ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] class acceptance email[/caption] At that moment, I felt a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the ... Boston to Hynes Convention Center. The vaccine clinic at Hynes is one of ... at your ID, they send you into the first room, you sit down at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... and embrace the life I had carefully crafted at MIT. A life where I was ... head above water at MIT. Here, I was someone better than what was chasing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS rElAt

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food. Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith ... for the semesters to follow, I can't help but look at the path ahead as ... complicated synthesis question? I'm not entirely sure. We might be looking at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  treasured memories from my time at MIT and it reminded me why I love speaking ... class I've taken at MIT) about the history and culture of francophone ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] My profile! The "My Contacts" section at the bottom is a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  This fall, I took SOC-STD 98LH Education and American Society at ... research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first ... on immigrant students at the Institute (more here). The 1890 yearbook

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  tissue engineering UROP, explored new parts of Boston, and ate only at restaurants that I had never eaten at before. Beyond the statement of the ... of certainty, “No.” My excitement was difficult to reconcile at first

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• 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