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• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by ... will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community ... —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  . I listed all the goals, skills, habits, etc. I wanted to have/do by ... people I already talk to lol. I’m trying to be better.     60% Completion ... ’m anemic, but I just could not remember to do it. This ended up being a good

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  by working with each other, being introduced to some material in class ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... home with a big box of LEGOs. $1500 worth of LEGOs to be precise. I don

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings ... dallas. she acknowledged the need to mourn and grieve and be angry. and ... email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  felt our way outside, in the dark, and had just found space to breathe when I was seized by the sudden urge to sacrifice a chunk of my dignity ... certain way, there is a lot less to forget. All that said, the idea of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  enter MIT. You die when you leave, only to be born, or reborn, wherever ... the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away But I love ... , but my friends had moved on and the places had changed. When I searched

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... school. Being surrounded by such STEM-oriented people, the very same people ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  well (congrats to the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalists ... requirements! Socially, making the transition to college will be challenging no ... not socially inept beings who lock ourselves in our rooms, refusing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  along every story until it was ready to be published. I very quickly ... ? I became slightly obsessed with the way my writing was being received ... MIT. I knew early on that I wanted to be able to expand this platform

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  come to appreciate the small things and not be overwhelmed by the ... into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah ... music, don't be discouraged about what I just wrote. I'm just trying to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... rapidly. All missing components must be received by 5 pm, Eastern Standard ... Hi y'all - Quick update for our Regular Action applicants. As Matt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  weeks. Python is easier to commit to since I'll be practicing it by ... 2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to ... —I've always just had a vague idea of things that would be nice to do or learn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  seemed to have. This was further enforced by the fact that my community ... connect with my colleagues. To be able to understand why it is they thought ... could explore. I began to be able to listen to Uber drivers tell stories

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  semester, I'm not sure I want it to be this one. #2: 6.3900, Machine ... remember. I don't know if this class will ever be that exciting to me ... course is supposed to be a lot of time and effort, but I think it's worth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... everybody has way more free time to spend on the Internet, so my internship ... . Why Seattle, you might be wondering? I wanted to work on West Coast

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... selection, when it will be too late for them to make a difference ... all tests conducted in January 2006 or before, and these will be seen by

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  will be precooked, and very small. We're not ready to spend 8 hours ... across the Charles River and stopped by a small Trader Joe’s along the way ... … locations, we set to work. This isn't our first rodeo, and by now we

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  felt like eternities. Did my freshman fall blow by this quickly ... that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping ... . Boston is beautiful and I'm so happy to be living here. I keep bumping into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  classes can be directly applicable to important current issues. WGS.151 and ... rigorous clinical research, unlike anything you’d imagine WGS to be. General ... largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like ... trades (i.e. don’t need to be in super early, don’t need to be on our toes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016