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  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  in the front row of the lecture hall, answering the professors ... try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I ... ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  would’ve, could’ve, should’ve a newly minted senior's freshman year regrets

  

  :) Gotten a meal plan. A big draw of the dining halls is social interactions ... spend this last year as an MIT undergrad. And, part of that decision ... figured I'd list out a few of my freshman year regrets, not to beat myself

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 2, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any ... unburdened by the demands of classes Step 3: Begin construction There are

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  weeks, which have been >> First week of November Saturday (not ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... sargent's "triumph of religion," which he spent 29 years on before his death

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this spring. This blog post is part of my research proposal. I have discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  engineering that was based off of my initial comment that I've never experienced ... 'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college. Probably too much content. Some of that was my own doing, whether it was YouTube advice videos or romanticized audiobooks or way too many of the MIT

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton, to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  her little drawings all around Random Hall. SHAKE SHACK! I just had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  of really interesting classes that were being offered. I finally chose ... * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  what kind of frat culture you are looking for MIT can offer you something ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  traditionalist and as one of the "universal synthesists." Using the French Suite No ... classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and ... lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD ... given the choice of several types of faculty advising. There’s traditional ... community events, students learn about all types of design and related fields

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  everywhere on campus. It was one of the reasons I applied. I still remember ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics conundrum, has thrown me into some sort of spiral of "not being MIT enough

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It ... ). So if it helps, think about all the other EA applicants, thousands of them, anticipating the decision with you. A special kind of anxiety is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016