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  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  : "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the resonant, omnipresent, pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This semester more than most ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this ... humanities side is often neglected.   Ragù (Bolognese) sauce in its birthplace Bologna! Day 17: Learning is hard (I imagine)! I was pleasantly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  the last 2.5 years here at the MIT. Inertia is real. Though a few Course ... immerse myself in a new environment, one that is just as engaging and ... best to be as resourceful as possible. There is a process of getting our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  though. And not just because application process is scary. But also because ... fitting classes at MIT. Love is hard of course. I won't romanticize MIT ... remind myself that, even when it sucks, MIT is home. It is my community and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  ? This is a question I don’t think I thought about too hard when I was ... Water Project is that, sadly, as many wells as I could possibly build in a ... , even the ones I could build would still eventually fail. This is a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ? After some googling, it seems that the construction of the two is ... time, the house is filled with the smell of Scrubbing Bubbles and Pledge ... plan for IAP. Since food is expensive, and cooking food takes a while, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  'll see that this is a place of heartbreaking defeats -- but at the same ... school is bad, internship is bad -- but there will be nothing quite like MIT. People said intern year after med school is hard, but I realized

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  friends to go on the trip with me, I sent an email that said "there is a ... is not just really photogenic; it is even more striking in person." I ... "). With the exception of the northern lights, the real thing is better than

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir (subtitled A Family ... like what makes a good online video and how the medium is evolving – than

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  . The withdrawal/readmission process is fairly straightforward; you meet ... hugs.) and talk about why you're withdrawing, what your plan is for the ... lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  of giant cards). Today while my code is running I am continuing to ... is very special to me. If you are an MIT freshman and you want to come ... as you can.) It is, however, my very particular plan for this very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  also keep a wait list of students. Is the wait list ranked? No. How ... you admit from the wait list this year? It is impossible to know. We ... not be admitted. But remember, any statistic against you (or for you) is

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  Note: this one is dedicated to the expectant EA applicants. Hope you ... before release. (on that note, here is a VIDEO on DNA replication by our ... Found Alive and Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  a picture of all the toys and candy and stickers everyone is giving away. That's what the MIT Career Fair is like. All the rock stars of the ... really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... ? Well, the obvious things…twelve months without school is fun, right

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You ... you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... . Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful, coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... third of the crowd were men, which is a lot more than any other yoga class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... MIT: Brandon, who graduated from MIT in 2009 and is working on his Ph ... is an awesome person, by the way. How so? He just has a great sense of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... showing you two more pictures from the evening. The first is of me with my bff Sophie :) and the second is an unfortunate candid shot of me; my now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... (Urban Planning) ’12 is blogging from Cambodia, where the D-Lab team is working together with farmers and credit union members to build

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012