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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  country, which isn't saying much as Israel is only the size of New Jersey ... 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

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

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... of gold that most MIT students and alums wear on a finger; colloquial ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  exciting, because it's so new. Last term there was a group of students trying ... As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You think that you’re on the list because of the Activities Fair back in ... . You drift asleep on Saferide. The same gaggle of Asian women in shiny ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... formal, aka "Floormal", on the last day of classes, for which we all became ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• 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 / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature ... also has the flagship store of Cereality, profiled today in a New York ... perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... stamina left. This isn’t particularly new, the sort of post-exam hosedness

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on ... 'd take a lot of time on each post. I'm not sure when the downward spiral

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... '6' for shorter)) has been appointed as new Chancellor! This is no ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is ... myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  shelf out, and handed it to him. I picked his sweatpants up from on top of ... ’ll look back on these four years as the best years of our lives and the ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to ... of course, you can also join the people who help choose the members on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... beavers emblazoned on the front. We point them in the direction of the ... old advice to the new returning students. One of the panelists this

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018