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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... lives up in pictures, detailing the events they attend, the reality shows ... my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for ... you were willing to knock on enough doors and really fight for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal ... almost obligated to blog about what exactly this Nobel Prize was for

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  when the Z has the Johnson Ice Rink up (instead of Johnson track for ... for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  anxiety and joy, everything jumbled up together, all extreme highs and lows ... 4AM and cry for no specific reason, traitor tears leaking through my ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  biology lab. The department does not set up UROPs for you, and they won ... occasion is scheduled for June 7, as it is traditional for MIT commencement ... pretty cool for a few reasons: IAP feels longer since we don't have to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Campus meant being able to glance at the line outside my window and line up ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone ... could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  skills while finishing up the second half of 18.02A. But before leaving for ... things on campus but I ended up escaping for one day to go on a day trip to ... So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader ... up at MIT, LeaderShape programs take place at many schools, and even if you never end up participating in the program, I hope you remember not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  HAVE NICE TEETH. DON'T MESS THEM UP.) With that, a nurse pulled a little ... identical copies of one nurse, and shut them again. The room spun for a while ... , because I need fuel for the TRULY OBSCENE AMOUNT OF WORK I HAVE TO DO OVER

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  section gives an introduction to tau from the ground up. The only thing ... ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more ... apologize for my terrible handwriting[/caption] But should we use a diameter

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... for an admissions or selections committee is HARD. It's not like ... differently than cover letters, and so on. It's been an up and down roller

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... -cultural appropriation hanging bead doors on my closet for most of elementary school

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I tried was any better. Twiddling with dimensions in SolidWorks for

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , and I’ll probably read another book after finals. For now, here are the ... . Learning and understanding my faith was one of my goals for the year, and ... English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  that I've picked up on that I realize are not quite the norm. Being home ... MIT that seem normal once you're here for a while, but you realize are ... 't that bad. You pick up on the numbers really quickly. Within two weeks, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  This is my final paper for Science Journalism, a science writing ... for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  switching out of Course 20 Considered signing up for both classes and only ... [annotation note="very helpful class planning website for MIT students that's updated for each semester"]Hydrant[/annotation] and[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  roads that seem too narrow for two cars to pass. Only slow songs come up ... than (1/x) for years. He knew how to set up integrals for his equations ... that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  everything for a while. I’ve had to catch up to a LOT of emails and Slack ... for a week and taking two finals on Friday, I somehow needed to pack up ... come. Next year, I'm also planning on signing up for makerspace access so

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026