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• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sticking my head out there to get a better camera angle. As you can tell ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  more intimate environment when getting to know your professors, find ... narrative is that even being a valedictorian "isn't enough" to get into MIT ... . I decided to take more time with my MIT application and ended up

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  profoundly grateful that this field of study even exists, that i get to do work ... that i get to be here, doing the things i’m doing. sometimes there are ... which finding and committing yourself to work you love is like romantic

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  yourself to sit through bad, hoping that it will get better, because if you ... if you want to. Personally I wasn't able to get credit for 18.01 and 8 ... 're going to have friends who get periods. you can be the hero of the story

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  had such a good time! to get there, we had to take the T and then the ... college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  , there were a zillion other events that I'm still sad I didn't get to go to ... to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  definitely get used to this. Hopefully, you feel the same way about the new ... afraid to get our hands dirty, to move fast and break things, and to try ... , so, unbeknownst to him, I'm commandeered his office, kicked out on his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT International Science and Technology Initiative helps students find ways to study abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  's genius musical design. And you get this attention to the music everywhere ... 're right, I don't even know why. I just had to get out of my head. I'm stuck ... yes, it's one thing to get it out with my own words, but it's another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... strangest details remain. We don’t get to choose what moments we forget, and which we get to keep. Even those that are stored in some nook or cranny in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  strain yourself to get it out - but actually, and this runs opposite to ... into consideration (and you're not going to get a part if you really can ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . Perhaps just my voice isn't enough to get the message across. So I have here ... .” -Antonio Moreno “Let’s get rid of the stigma that you need to toughen up and deal ... ’t get an A, I’m still fine with it.” -Azaria Zornberg “Don’t EXPECT to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to respond. College admissions offices employ standard USPS snail mail to ... doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ’m saying is that there’s a lot more to life than getting all your homework ... admissions officers can get to know about this so that they don't think I am an ... insane to listen to my classmates argue with our teachers to get 2 points

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them ... appreciate inquisitiveness and curiosity. This way, you also get to know your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to get involved in student government, because the only student ... the time. What eventually motivated me to get involved with the UA was ... Steve Kelch '08 as my running mate. There were three tickets. We lost to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we ... surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019