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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student ... , and right now, we're in 23rd place!! If we become one of the top two vote-getters in the $250,000 category, then every branch of Camp Kesem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me ... , studying 2.001 for my final on Tuesday. For that final we get 4 pages of ... Ghost of Stephen Foster by the Squirrel Nut Zippers 4:13 PM Alright, I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... score became so much the purpose of the exams that when I got into college ... expensive prep classes. The supposed reward of credit was long forgotten

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... her the first time I kissed a girl. Maybe it was high school, or maybe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  marking period or maybe even the end of the whole year. You do tons of work ... whole slew of people hilariously spoofing the scene.) After that, dance ... ONE WHOLE YEAR AGO (man I am bad at this timeliness thing) I began the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  have a crush. 79. I would love to travel the whole world. 80. I become ... to play the acoustic guitar. 89. I hate the feeling of failure. 90. i ... mail. 98. I have problems letting go of people. 99. I hate the feeling

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... end of the paper, the paper won't immediately tear like you might first ... interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! The MIT programs are ... school juniors can consider. All of the below are national ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  that. but the whole time, i felt out-of-place. i didn't click with anyone ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  . 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert ... flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane. 1947 – First flight of the Boeing B ... ." 1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... my last semester blogpost that this class was the bane of my existence ... test with Helena, one of the Spanish department faculty, and she said I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... buildings seemed to be the embodiment of innovation, the students I saw ... don’t exist). But in all seriousness out of all of the colleges I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to ... MIT portal for the locations and times of these events, and for a comprehensive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which ... . We ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  ) the fact that I was admitted for who I am. Plus a whole lot of luck. I ... mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place. Unlike the majority of admitted students enthusiastically celebrating à la

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  enthralled by one of the most boring attractions at the park. At first, it was ... night of freshman fall. It's where I saw Inception for the first time and ... 've then made my way to main campus for my first class of the day. But of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... , an explosion of water, and rock, and steam, and dust, and ash. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST ... isn't the point of FIRST, or rather, it's a means, not an end. The point of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  do these things with in the first place. and it feels like the kind of ... all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... in the area. some of them will be visiting every iap for mystery hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  our first quiz, which was quite challenging and took me the whole two ... as the first piece of historical writing in Western society, and also ... representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020