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  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  with Birds by Joan Miró in front of it), the "Houston is Inspired" mural ... lyrics to an entire album. It was the last night of the tour. The energy ... kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... 't judge too harshly--if a kid you knew walked by with a bottle of bubble ... what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... about the college experience that drew me. Fresh out of high school, with ... . I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  , does it take to pay my rent? how many minutes of work does it take to pay ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... 's evening. on the weekends, most of the time i'm too tired to organize things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  within some amount of limited resources - whether that be space or time, or ... on a range by looking at the range of values it takes, picking subsets ... start by reviewing the fundamentals of electricity and magnetism and then

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  the type of student who is defined by the world in which he lives. Lets ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of Massachusetts? With flip flops of course! Try again. While I must say that flip flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  's the next [annotation note="by some definition of best ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  of a subject. Waly Shirt Let me preface this shirt by saying I am ... hoodie was designed by a member of our class and was voted the top design ... After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed ... :30 AM I was sort of fascinated by the sun. Tip for the Successful and ... I decided to thaw away the stress of college application season by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and ... people I was that I felt absolutely drained by the end of it all. REX was a ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  's constant, by measuring the maximum kinetic energy of electrons ejected from a ... are tiny; students don't really take advantage of them. This is fine by ... INTERFEROMETRY Derive the wavelength of a light source by measuring an interference

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... steps in real time.  So I learned a bit of Processing (which is really ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  the freshman application process. What is an LΔ? It is all of the ... learning process. One of my good friends is a professor and administrator at ... placement exam he only earned a grade of D+. By the end of the semester

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one ... trip because I’ll get to meet lots of you in the process. I know I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  -centered admissions process requires that we consider this kind of context when we ... lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students ... responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  by sharing tutorials or resources. There are so many beautiful ... Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  tinkerers  — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high ... . The balance of our applicants —  807 —  withdrew from our process before ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024