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  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4, (flexible mechanical engineering with a concentration in design ... brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... staff, Hassan founded a “Hacker House” in San Francisco during the summer ... members to start a chicken farm in his home country, the Ivory Coast. This

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  The new baby bloggers were introduced about a month ago, but I have one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she definitely doesn’t have a coherent point of view or an extensive blogging

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We ... shortest queue, and mumbled to him, “After you”, a way of securing our spot

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this ... , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  every morning. We also found something quite spectacular. IT'S A CAT CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with ... were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... ! My name is YQ, and I’m one of Lydia’s friends from Random Hall. A few months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT students and alumni. Here is a taste of a few of the events this coming week. Check out your MyMIT portal

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  a chain around my neck. I then picked up the kitty, gave her a treat, played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles ... went to the MIT Maker Faire who has a more technological-rich background

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  .  We traditionally have a camping trip each fall, but this year Kayla E. '15 and Becca G. '14 organized a last minute spring camping trip with 18 ... . '13, would do a small hike Monday, and then join Car 2 for the Franconia

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... MIT! Here are a few highlighted events this coming week; see your MyMIT portal for the locations and times of these events, and for a comprehensive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... street is that this could mean a Nobel Prize for MIT's Prof. Alan Guth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... 've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... I wrote a couple years ago (see below). As someone commented on Lydia

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Two weekend ago, I spent my Saturday at a wonderful show called the ... . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep ... making my room look slightly less like a gulag... and start working on ... .) And finally, I've been catching up on a number of DIY projects I've been

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012