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

  

  to party even harder after the test was over. Getting that perfect ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them ... Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I've never had to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  good time to mention that if you get into running, it really, really sucks to stop, become almost sedentary, and then get back into it after a ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  forces me to get up in the mornings, but I think (with dedication) I can ... yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... to access your rational, “outside view” shoulder-devil to remember the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... storefront, here's one from Google Maps.   We got back to the house at ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I ... get quite a lot of things, if you know where to look. Like... Free food ... groups or one of MIT's many offices should be enough to get you started

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  ”. Moving to Boston has been one of my latest adventures, and as I prepare to ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... . And then I get up every morning to start the cycle over again. And again ... major. “Is getting through this courseroad all going to be worth it? Or am

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to ... 've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  thoroughly that I almost couldn't walk after. I need to get into serious eating ... you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen ... blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a voucher sent to me by an upperclassmen. as i walk, a thought pops into my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than ... fancy thing called the Internet. Smaller bands can get their music out there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  guess they're just not trying to let us get ahead of ourselves, since ... myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  :15 — my alarm that tells me to get a snack from Red Door goes off. I decide to get a green tea this time, as well as an avocado toast. 1:42 — no ... Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  method to this blog (since deleted) and other sites. Others have posted ... some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to ... letters written by other teachers. To deter this, he now charges $20 per

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  want to get out of bed in the morning. My therapist graciously snapped ... this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  over to the Google Cambridge office for another open house, snuck into ... To set the mood: Come Home by Baynk. [caption id="attachment_38993 ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  . After all, MIT is one of those schools that you strategize to get into ... ’s why I think you should apply. 1. Applying to MIT is how you get into ... before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  . I had already committed to MIT prior to getting on the plane, so I ... some sort of physics lab tour, and I stopped in between only to get ... when you have to get off in Florida 80-degree weather and will sweat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018