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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  for a week, either to take the lead on my work or to sit back and ... got just dark enough for someone to get injured on playground equipment ... , in response to which, on the last day to register for the biology GRE

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  This post is for those who are moving on from this blog today, May 1 ... attached to you, and not just for what you'd bring to the MIT community, but ... options can be hard on both sides. That can be emotional. To those of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I ... to get me -- I’d finally found my fellow lizard people! Socializing on

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  major living and social option for close to a thousand men. Like most ... When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT ... about most." As the freshmen arrive on campus, I find myself thinking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  on. I had goals I wanted to accomplish, and I felt like, for the most ... happened, and I have some good poems to show for it—but maybe more on that ... no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... on, it turned out that MIT was also in talks with Disney for a general

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Arthur Mattuck) 8.012: Physics I (often referred to as "Physics for ... friend of mine) 3.091: Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry 9 ... information about other exciting classes at MIT, cruise on over to Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I ... to be up super early to go to drill sessions for MIT-EMS. I knew it was ... was placed right in front of the main entrance to MIT on Massachusetts

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... weeks to assemble the cannon, test it for safety and reliability, and ... Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our ... get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  . 2. I got an A on my Pulitzer-worthy essay for German I, "Mein Freund ... scored free tickets to the Boston Lyric Opera's production of Lucie de ... another aria about how he's going to kill himself for like ten more minutes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  code, polished websites, sophisticated projects. On mine: a spatter of ... so on. I met with a nice lady who encouraged me to include my Olympiad ... -wracking. I got back to my dorm, and immediately filled out an application for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend ... agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  of a frat boy, but I may go to a few events for the free food ... building.) It's quite common for freshmen to receive single rooms (i.e., no ... Square in Cambridge on the Red Line; you can get to the airport by subway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  grade science reports on, say, baking powder volcanos, I did mine on The ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... Armstrong? To be fair, we probably discussed this in recitation for about 20

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... guys! If you have any questions feel free to email the organizers. Let ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007