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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  camping on the shore of the Sea of Galilee! The past few days, all of the ... unlawful amount of fun playing on the beach, going to an Israeli concert, and ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... spend a lot of time on the internets answering questions about MIT and ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ended up on roofs.  The earliest example known of such a hack? 11 ... stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  brings me joy. Let me take you on a brief tour of my cross ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... , and made quite a bit of extra cash on the side. A few years into

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  found one of the yoshitomo nara pieces i had picked out still hanging on ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  fences, and we live on opposite sides of campus, so our social circles ... belong here or not, I was admitted, so I’m intent on making the most of it ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... personally better than one in front of whom I spilled vanilla ice cream on a ... who dreams with me of a blissful life on a boat in neutral waters where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  streetcorner, adding a bunch of songs to an iPod playlist called "On the Go 5 ... . And breathe. Slow inhale on a count of four, hold for a count of four, exhale on a count of four. Repeat twice more. You're gonna be okay

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... most of my belongings in too many cardboard boxes. The dust on my walls and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a ... needlepoint portraits of people’s dogs!  She then goes on to say, “But I’m not ... and had dinner at Phi Beta Epsilon, one of MIT’s fraternities on campus

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... before Obama’s executive action on immigration. Of the millions of ... receptive. Sofia’s answer was spot on. I don’t want to string any more of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... of yourself". I look back on those days and feel tempted to laugh at ... part of a public art display: On the stand there was the following

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... on my list are just a matter of the small size of the black population ... So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday, we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... work/life balance means. again, this depends on the person—some of my ... pass out on top of your problem set. 2) join clubs and activities you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the ... Boston Marathon as a member of Team MR8, the charity team that runs on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  forth. You tend to rely on academics as a sort-of pride because you haven ... unhappiness and burnout. On college admissions specifically: of course it's easy ... --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016