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• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Christmas music every morning on the drive to school, but I haven’t heard much ... !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  magnetic flux flow, they’re essentially just switches – much easier to ... ]\LaTeX[/latex]. And they’re all Paolo’s! That changes today. MIT exposes us to so many ... bloggers to write posts about these concepts this month. To kick off this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . I am to see people much older and more experienced than I am as peers ... , and figure out what I didn’t know and needed to learn. In fact, I ... ’t have to deal with that part too much. But it still affects many other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  need to think about where you're going or what your options are. You also ... lot about choice, and the choices I need to make. A lot of this is ... stick to it. But I'm not frustrated that we can only live once, that we

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  't feel the need to close the door when you napped and could always find a ... it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let me climb all over his bedding and his pillows to take the following

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... the second, I was newly done with high school, and better able to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  don’t need a graduation requirement to convince me to take that! First ... , pretty much the only thing I knew how to do was fall over and gawk at the ... around. To be honest, I pretty much learn new techniques by watching how

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  into his office to say hello at least once every week or two, frequently ... tennis bubble, Kresge, the Student Center, and more. Not to mention, a ... told that I needed a banner image, this picture, which I acquired as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  the other hand i think there is a portion of mit that does know how to ... "]sk[/annotation] i think i just need to let go of the expectation that i’ll end up ... too much extra context thoughts? p: that sounds like a good idea

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring ... of words[annotation note="and if it does mean something to you, I am ... energy to care about it as much as my other classes: even 7.05, a

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

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  you ever did? Does this passion light a fire in you to keep pushing ... time to reflect, for even just a minute, about how much you've changed and how much you're going to change can remind you of how much is within

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT’s Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I ... to my peers, they told me I needed time-management skills and to work ... . I was already devoting so much time to just studying, and yet everyone

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  has a happy ending: With the lighthouse to one's back, one need ... there was much more to enjoy than just beaches and lighthouses. As the sun began to set in much clearer skies, I reflected on my experience

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  alter abruptly. But I don’t have much evidence to substantiate this, and ... . I feel like I’ve slogged through so much high school just to get to ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  anyone ever needs to know about the unanswerable questions that trouble ... from “Why can't shopping carts go 35 mph on 4-lane roads?” to "Why does ... lightweight, perfectly reflective material, how big would the sail need to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile ... rhyme, and we need both stories present in classrooms to thrive.  ... Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  -essays may not represent you in all your 1080p HD glory. 2. You don't need to ... .) 3. You don't need to use the essays to prove that you have overcome ... way about your own writing? Once again, the purpose of the essays is to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005