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• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up ... inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead ... missing for me, though, was physical fitness. At some point, and almost on a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  MIT was just letting me fail. I showed up for class and was forced to ... , nothing that could prepare me for MIT physics. There should have been indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... expensive). March 22nd came and Michelle and I loaded up our backpacks with ... looked around for prefrosh. None. We headed towards Dunkin' Donuts for some

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... corresponded. Fun for toute la famille! I think that you could play the same game ... movements for you, and sings the chorale melody on which the entire cantata is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  spectrum of introductory classes as you established a track for elective ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on

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

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... your application essay for MIT should probably use a little more varied ... prepositional phrases are always nice too. When I Grow Up When I grow up, I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  other up. The event only lasted an hour, but I was smiling for the rest of ... went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  . Anyways, I made up a really crappy but maybe useful timeline for when you ... junior lab roster), and perhaps 20 more 8-B majors. Add that all up and it makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  ="90191" /] Someone actually responded! We met up at Maseeh and exchanged $15 for a ... harvest the cap. But alas it was simply not attainable for reasons detailed in this dormspam I sent out of desperation: I will pay $15 for an H2GO

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  will suggest further directions for investigation or provide an opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do ... to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  little to show for it-- I always end up back where I started. (Maybe bike ... travels. But what if you throw a ball up into the air and catch it at the ... go back to the book example, what if I were to pick up that book and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... pushing the buttons for the demonstration while Tara holds the stag head up ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  ago and stands for Independent Awesome Period (not really, but it might ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  , building up a strong academic and critical thinking foundation for their ... and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... Engineering Educational Transformation) program for MIT undergraduates, which is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a ... interning elsewhere for a railroad, and made a few other phone calls as well

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  really knowing what I was in for. Either way, somehow I ended up here, and ... equipment, cook meals for each other, split up the cleaning chores. We plan ... , for example, is Maia: the oldest sailing sister. She gave birth to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  trouble a lot of the time, but it's also important to speak up for what you ... bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... little moments where I would crack. Where I would think about it for too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  appreciate the ups and downs and in betweens of life for making us the people ... For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  -based financial aid this year for undergraduate students — up some 70 percent from a ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  ago quite a bit. it's inevitable; each day, SnapChat memories pop up and ... situation especially bittersweet. for me, it's my former dorm, Burton Conner ... to think about it, after all—but it shapes how I've been planning for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021