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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may ... gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... departments are numbered up to 24, but here are the most common majors: 6

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  leading up to some unknown structure. There’s a mural on the lower ... . As if you could box culture to be a single thing, I say. We head up ... talk about. The sidewalk is level for a while. And then it leads down

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences for the academic standards i’m comfortable with? could i, perhaps ... "]FPOP[/annotation] counselors (a super inspiring upperclassman!), so i reached out asking for his ... wanted to live and which activities i was interested in, but i ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  .” He was looking for funding to start OpenLabWare, which he explained ... ’d be interested in becoming a content creator for OLW. Of course, I ... , before entering the meeting, I prepared myself for rejection. Luckily, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  kick it up a few notches, and I’ll have to grapple for those notches as I ... stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and I wanted to run for president someday. What’ll happen to us if all our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a ... the arts here*. For the artsy admits, who are questioning if/how they

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  ( [annotation note="As it turns out, MIT housing policies allow you to have up to ... could just go for the next best thing (and probably the more realistic ... bookshelves at all so I ended up putting it on my main dresser instead and it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  It's 9:05am PST. I told myself I'd wake up past 9:14, but either due ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of ... up a barbecue grill on the leader raft, cook meat, pass meat around in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students ... " "We encourage you to come up with your own procedure to solving problems" He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  ended up doing verrrrry bad for our standards. Boston, Massachusetts (1 ... and coaches made up for the lackluster setting, but I'm only ranking ... Sentimental Man"]Wicked[/annotation] - Yes it has not even been out for two

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’ll probably stick with applications for the project, and just try to pick up ... about my UROP for a while, but usually end up just UROPing instead as soon ... ’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  internship, like I've been telling people. It's a subgenre of sorts, meant for ... expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... godly figure shining down on me saying "Cami, computer science is for you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  registration opens very late. For example, pre-registration for Fall 2019 opened ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... 't decide when registration period rolls around, so they register for twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

   Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Thanks, everyone, for your feedback on the admitted students parties ... was unscheduled, but that made it all the more better. For example, Les ... of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  example. Third-year students who are interested could also sign up for an ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... 's been teaching for over fifty years. And then I fell down the rabbit hole

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  , showing up in classics like the Delmore brothers’ “Freight Train Boogie” and ... for artists to hearken back to an imagined “simpler place and time,” as ... shadow I grew up in. It’s a truly lively city with a lot of diversity and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023