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  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  because it pretty much entails every dorm trying to show off its culture in ... to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I ... . Transportation planning is a mix of civil engineering and urban planning, much to ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  could leave you here, but once again I have something to show you. Two ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  to circumstance, felt no need to reach for anything higher than what ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  in your near-adult life. Because there is just so much to do all the ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say ... appears to be broken, which makes me sad, especially since I had cute ... , feel free to leave me comments and questions to answer here. I will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... the blogs. Capitalizing the word 'I', being careful not to overextend ... think I have a personal twist to the standard style that actually might be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and ... two classes, 18.S097 Introduction to Mathematical Proofs and 20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this guest lecture actually be about? Brief sidebar here to mention that it is ... . At the time, this was considered a "radical experiment" that faced much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... good time to talk about application process flexibility. We know bad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  , random insults, do my best to simply ignore them as much as I can. And ... as needed, to turn off the news, to decide not to engage with your ... -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens that some deadlines are very, very soon. I wouldn't want to tell you how

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  taking themselves seriously. They don't need to: when you're that good, you ... Allow me to (re)introduce myself. My name is Chris Peterson. For ... from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... smart, the draw of an amazing academic school is too much to resist. MIT ... prove it to you. Dominating our Conference MIT is the most successful

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  , sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to ... to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  've been to sichuan once, when i was sixteen years old, and we went to a ... been to a harvard a capella concert before, and i had a great time! much ... pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  -campus. Would I have really felt better then, if I was going to be pretty much ... first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... yet, still need to buy food, only got my schedule put into google ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016