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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  course, when all was said and done, we needed to take a giant group picture ... alumni that have lived on my hall, going all the way back to the MIT class ... current residents to keep pushing forward and doing great things. I found a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One ... dedicate so much time to math and science and I heard Cambridge had no trees ... Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  make the subject easy to understand and much more interesting. Also, they ... units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  Plushies finished up their stay in the museum at Lowell and were transferred to the ... future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... trip to Hasbro I chatted with Don Fardie, one of the model shop guys, and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  concern for how much you will remember six months from now. It seems to be a ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I ... land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the ... rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  ’s a choice. There are certain things that I know I need to do to be ... so entangled. I just know, if I want to have a good day tomorrow I need to run today, I need to not eat junk food today, and I need to go to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  't starve to death this IAP. Once it hit 11am, I would walk to the MIT ... getting paid to sit in a place that generated so much joy. I love my UROP ... hustle and bustle to keep my mind occupied. I was once told that I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7 ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  that much stronger at MIT – you need two Harvard geeks to equal just one ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... about her career as an astronomer. Other contributors to the book include

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  my choices. But how much does that really matter to me? How much ... through summer employment, so I guess I needed to make money somehow. I also ... clueless as to what I wanted to do that summer, much less what I wanted to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  season everything to my tastes much better. Wednesday I tried my hand again ... ) let them cook for as long as needed and 2) just use my hands to flip ... 've learned is self discipline, as well. I still need to treat myself a bit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  fun time). This is as, to graduate, you need to take eight humanities ... classes I need to take to graduate. If I don’t take one this semester, then ... take classes at MIT. Soon, I will need a job, and an apartment, and to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5 ... .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  , which were chosen over dogs because they don't need to be walked, don ... MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  whenever I had too much else to do that night, or if I simply wasn't feeling ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  incentives. Fraternities don't really need to invite girls, but they do. Professors don't need to sacrifice their time participating in a Professor ... Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  (growth mindset!) and I needed to figure out a way to represent this that ... back of my door -- mostly because I needed to know how they would look on ... mixed to make each color.[/caption] Once I had my ratios the way I liked

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  course material, both professors have contributed so much to the physics ... learn. He's not there maybe to show how smart he is or how much he knows ... had considered transferring to the California Institute of the Arts. He

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  . i would learn to love science for science’s sake, not because i needed ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020