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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  facilities and programs with small cards to denote an LGBQT student's first ... of LGBT Services and a strong advocate of the campaign, talked to me ... we talked more, I was surprised to find that Abigail's position, once a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... 't have much to talk about. So aside from answering all of the questions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my ... . Its coastal views of the northeast are familiar to me, and its spotty Wi

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  entry to EC']Talbot[/annotation], and that marketing worked: I ... to participate in it — and that doing so would make participating in ... the people I met and the ones I want to get to know better. Some of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  lulls you to sleep. I wanted to learn about Web sites and how to create ... much to learn and feel. I welcome it all with open arms, and I certainly ... schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  , and (only once because it was kinda gross) eating cream ... ="rand"] Back to Phineas and Ferb In the episode “Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs ... visited MIT around then. I explained my plight to them, and they were kind

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  details on experiment setup and validity you’ll have to look into it ... -deprived). the idea in this paper is that we can trigger oscillations to target and ... their tongue, their brains will still be able to process the signals and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to ... learning to drive. Purely hypothetical situation, ladies and gentlemen

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  to fly past before you can even try; and then more bikes might come and ... them off to a shop and break the locks at their leisure. However, this doesn’t seem to happen often, and the freedom of being able to leave your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of ... helping out with a cultural show and tell in preschool. That's a smol me to ... for this name). She took us to China when I was just 4 years old and my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  been created and had owners, likely administrators at MIT. So, what's a ... such a pattern? Create and claim ownership over the first unclaimed list ... , ladies and gents - THE MIT FRESHMAN'S GUIDE TO RECOVERING OWNERSHIP OF

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  respective NCAA tournaments- congrats to men’s and women’s cross-country, and ... night of studying, and then being able to drop all of that and head to ... and become family. Having moved 3,000 miles to an unfamiliar city, I can

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  kinda fast and is [annotation note="probably easier to animate hehe and ... ~magical~ acceptance letters inside them. Stu and Tim gather MIT students to ... "]RLE[/annotation] and uses their laser to lead Matariel astray >:3 Her design was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  to a storage facility. And then there was last semester. A pandemic was brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of ... Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  also hard. It’s so much easier to try and do everything yourself, with no ... educational and productive to have someone much more experienced than myself be ... the problem and then teaches the other person. To actually solve a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  school representative to be considered official. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your school does not have a school ... official transcript to be submitted and processed, we will add it to your
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  year and it’s a good chance to see everybody before the semester begins ... gratitude, that I had the luck to meet so many amazing people and that we are ... will come back to Boston and ask to meet up. They usually want to know

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... working to overthrow it -- but I think it does it better and more ... class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  the lab and shown it to a TA, I have a day's break where I won't go into ... seem less painful when there's someone to share a chocolate chip and ... Wow. I've had an intense week. And it's only Wednesday. Now, finally

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008