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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First, I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... of the friendships formed here, whether ephemeral or forever. They also ... the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... story of an inception attempt that failed in the face of true love; they ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... me moving 5 ft forward in the East Campus courtyard, scared out of my ... 3am and skate my PNR emotional frustrations away. The feeling of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  them and feel like I have numerous holes in my understanding of the ... /NR and thus alleviating the majority of my anxieties each week. I won ... environment like the one you're currently in—you'll (hopefully) have lots of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building ... see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... she wasn’t invited to my house, but the jumble of Russian-English that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of ... bit of those 24 hours, but that just makes the time that I was awake ... places over the course of the day. It would be a momentous undertaking, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... other than that of the dried wood pulp from which it had once been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  Hampshire meant that the experience of old age was far beyond my perception ... I went to Japan⁠—which was every year of high school. the second and ... receive such monumental news that I read and reread the message dozens of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area—you can't do anything wrong when completing the form
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a senior, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. So, after my ... unpleasant, and there are many thoughts and feelings I have about the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental ... maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my ... should be, what would I think was the most striking thing? Would it be the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those ... MAKE Magazine and MAKE blog. Both the zine and the blog highlight many of ... Instructables: A project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs (who "make a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge.  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making ... the past week and he's been going there and they gave him all sorts of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006