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• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  goal than to experience as much as possible with the funds and time I was ... ! How much do you want to get out of these 4 or so years of your life? Are ... importantly how much are you willing to expand your horizons? These are all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  figured that I didn't really *need* to join in order to make games. I did ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake ... semester, when I made more reasonable choices, I would have more time to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  year (instead of 2 if you apply to another school), and you don't need to ... Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much ... heard it, it must be 100% true. You need to filter through everything. (I ... questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can ... "content". Not to say that I'm not content now, because I very much am. After ... , the little kid, the growing 20-year-old adult. It's much easier to say

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to climb and a cliff to fall off of and at the end of the day you need ... the mountain air and he is here to look down at the valley once again ... valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  Infinite. I don’t do as much work as I want to because I feel bad, but then I ... , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... break, expecting to be mostly alone, knowing that it’d be really different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I ... to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and the MIT Class of 2012 will treat you to a rousing litany of Academic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  once I'm not bound to the reg desk. I'll probably spend most of the day ... working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  have won four of our last five games and have all the momentum we need to ... need to win this game. We’re going to have to execute on everything we ... court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  proposed to address these needs. These collaborations help identify dual ... industry partners work together to develop technologies that advance soldier ... research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  patrols. Your needs are our dedication and commitment to service." MIT ... MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  battles just as we prepare to defeat our finals once again in this infinite ... As I walked up the steps to 77 Mass Ave this morning I was ready to ... . We will fight to brighten up MIT. Please accept this portrait made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... extremely docile and friendly (or according to Wikipedia, “dog-like”) and is ... jiggling when you poke it (puru puru) and pretty much you can treat him like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  format?? Dilemma.) Simply lovely You don't have to stop biking once ... On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I ... interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  grandfather or me. When the dust settles, you'll need to help your child make ... My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home on their first vacation they thought their parents were so much smarter

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  you need to know beforehand that Lisa hates the color red. And you have ... free to be as incoherent as you like, and don't lose too much sleep over ... It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007