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• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  them with med school-related decisions. 82% of MIT undergrads who applied ... umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  foul chemicals you do not know the name of. They make the metal that you ... ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that ... entirely. You will be back again tomorrow. Next you rush down the halls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... cosecant of something so I'd have a reason to say "arccsch," which should

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  organization offering after school childcare services (mostly for families of ... While most of my friends were freezing and building igloos on MIT ... the Southern Hemisphere as part of an MIT course: [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  , and that I needed some form of exercise that wasn't just long walks with my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I ... enjoyed it because most of my friends were in it as well. One of my most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... exciting, one of my biggest accomplishments during my time here has been my ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  me, some of the people I care about, and this past year.   Figure 1: My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  ! My name is YQ, and I’m one of Lydia’s friends from Random Hall. A few ... Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... math but which are, indeed, math. In particular, math includes many of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... in table groups, and reflected on some of the capabilities that define ... thoughts We created a fleet of Lego aircraft as part of a simulation based

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several ... Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... little bold with this whole idea, but there's a whole lot of our reputation

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to ... Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
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