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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short ... 'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how ... the pistol and charging it with air. The pistol had to be loaded one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... blogposts, specifically this one, you'll know that being home brings on some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... University of Cambridge. And yes, none of these were really rejections to be ... forward to actually being an MIT student. As I've mentioned in many, many

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of ... this, but this summer will actually be the first one since my freshman year of high school where I’ll be single (probably. I highly doubt I

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... study using technology that I built myself. I might even be published by ... much about before. To be honest, this focus on more research based

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you ... be held standing in a hallway, or even turn out to include a bunch of ... mental image of the very hard-working but very busy person I will be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  greasy" being a regular color for my hands. I loved finding aluminum ... school across the street. When I got to 9th grade, I was told to be wary of ... being flippant and being upbeat. I also learned that taking defeat well

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  the stars so I think astrophysics would be a lot of fun to study," said ... School. "I would rather challenge myself than be challenged," said Boyd ... she'll have to figure out in August because Boyd will be seven

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... your stereotype may be. 3. I may not be always politically correct. I ... life and fraternal life is so different that I don't think it would be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  majors. Very nearly everyone at MIT (the exception being students who are ... are a lot of core requirements that must be completed before a degree will be awarded. This doesn't leave much room for electives- there are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  /academics... but... I like being taught for $45,000 a year. Is the situation the same ... , though there's no way to be sure, probably is GMO), there's organic milk offered, which is much more likely to be untampered with. The best news is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  shirts for the men. The style itself was very...flowery? Instead of being ... up and going into the city, only to be greeted by the warm, sparkling opera house is enough for me to be taken completely out of the MIT bubble

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... herself. Not to be outdone, she’s moving out of state as well. She’s one of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  this[/caption] I ordered a 64 pack of chalk, which would definitely be ... for the time being. Unfortunately, the rain washed our creation away ... hopscotch is inherently ephemeral, a wisp of joy and beauty that can only be

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  ’s something about traveling that I think can be fulfilling and scary at the same ... be submitted for a grade. Applying to MIT wasn’t even an expected ... ="alignnone" width="300"] Mother nature’s preview of what Boston weather would be like

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  Unfortunately I don't think I will be talking about the duality ... for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And ... $x$-axis and the $y$-axis must be measured in inches. Therefore

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue ... would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works, right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  used to be all the rage in country music. Purported to be on the first ... heading south along the East Coast, imploring to be rocked “like a south ... , when the route was on the brink of being decommissioned. 1971 was also

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  courtesy of straightforwardness? Wouldn’t it be better if he had a chance to ... don’t know if there’s a way to say I like being single without sounding like cope, especially on Valentine’s Day, but I like being single. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  closing,” my advisor said and emphasized that it would be in my best ... being a student whose sole responsibility is to learn. To find answers to the endless amount of questions I have about this world. To be given

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023