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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  asked students to share their reflections on their background, their weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them ... for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  comments below), I'd like to ask you to really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example ... , had written an essay on a topic very similar to mine--how our physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... goes. Originally, I just planned on showing up to the lecture and maybe ... to do very often." It's a speech written on the occasion of Schwartz

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job ... on-field after a cardiac arrest. i’ve always been the kind of person to ... do manage to focus on something else at some point your mind wanders

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  leading up to some unknown structure. There’s a mural on the lower ... meters in any direction. Open to the public, privately owned. Flanked on ... -Americans don’t speak Chinese. Alan introduces to me the phrase living on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  , it's better to be able to set aside less time, and focus on ... good thing if what it creates for me is happiness. It does not need to be ... , to take up space in my life. I want it and love it for itself, not just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Admitted Students The Class of 2011 directory.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into MyMIT for the Class of 2011 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this entry's fresh comments space for more admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Admitted Students A quick update.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into their MyMIT portal for new content, including a Class of 2010 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this fresh comments space for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  done during IAP? Feel free to discuss your new goals for 2010 - now that ... makes! & Finally, a search for “IAP” on the blogs homepage will pull ... where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  , it was time for me and Ann L. ‘26, two of the artists on RingComm, to ... for Premiere. Finally, at 7:05pm, lights dimmed to outrageous cheer ... short little video skits to play before each duo walked on stage to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for ... to 0, they sprinted back to the sidewalk, waited for traffic to stop

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  try to look for an internship, although several of my friends did. I talked to a couple companies, asked about which ones had opportunities for ... impossible for me to get something to do over the summer. I remember thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred A forum

  

  We'll have some advice and instructions for Deferred students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  so on. There's The Tech for that. But sometimes, the true stories of ... diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  once to ask for advice – instead of focusing solely on homework problems ... Experiences to enjoy outside of this box. I also have some options for the way I ... I resorted back to work-as-a-coping-mechanism for the spring.  

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible ... now i mostly just want to learn a lot and work on meaningful technical ... really” and asking for clarification on what ambition means. i think that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... straightforward (tips 1-4). It's harder to nail the slight (emphasis on slight ... closed keeps my room scent-free. Similar to tip #2, while food smells good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019