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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... the world works. Nothing can be done without consideration for politics

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... recently though, Dave was asking about possible storage solutions for his son ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... around for an hour until 7pm, when I was allowed back on (the reason the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... 's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  for our family line--the Dynasty Family--that captured my hope that our chapter would thrive and grow after we left it (and reign for 1000 years ... treasurer   The seniors of New House 4, where I lived for most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  already makes for a memorable life event, just because the next one won’t show it’s big red self for another thirty-three years! So let’s flash ... hour wait, which was no problem for a group of excited young frosh like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... plenty of time for both... so being slammed with opportunities and open ... friends destress through acting or dancing or running 10 miles, but for a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT ... GPA are all accurate. (note: we don't get 0.3 or 0.7 for plusses and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... -winning programming language. I didn't know what TEAL stood for, exactly. (Wait, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list. The email asks for applications for the Next House[annotation note ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... level used their platforms to advocate for others and to make sure as many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012