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• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  was worth me being stuck immobile for 2 weeks, but i digress ... landed with just your backpack and your luggage was all caught up in ... and fast-paced-ness and wild stories we’ll tell for years to come. What

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... around mit for an meng, so they’ll be around another year. some are staying in the area. some of them will be visiting every iap for mystery hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  it multiple times before the day of this story. I was nine and grew up ... metaphysical walls of Sachse, Texas, where I’d grown up. They had immigrated from ... visited two old buildings. Which isn’t shocking for Boston, but these two

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  woke up the next day and laid in bed for 15 minutes, feeling sparkly. I ... , but my general impression is that growing up is just the process of ... by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  conversation. It was also possible to have walked up to them, grabbed their arms ... and “Person” jumps up in excitement, chiming, “Alright, let me introduce ... President Reif's convocation. MIT had an awesome birthday gift for me: The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... ="79491" /] The MIT Application for Admission from Secondary School Introduction Set

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  conclusion, where, for the first time, there wasn't one. Was it a transformative experience? Yes. Did I grow up? Yes. But it was too quick. I wasn ... stayed because whatever options I had for leave felt worse.  And despite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a ... Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors ... dramatically. I didn’t expect senior year to feel like the same ‘level up’ that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  . Growing up, I just had no preconceptions of what Boston was like how L ... been here for only 38 days, I can confidently rank Boston higher on my ... has bikes all around Boston for about $3/ride."]blue bike

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  hold it for Matthew, who had come for this recitation, and declare, it is ... silly little cube mean something so exciting.    had you come up to me ... than we think.  i walked into the first workshop for my short play with

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a ... curriculums need to be restructured to give students better avenues for recovering and catching up) self-fulfilling prophecies have played an

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up ...  this semester, I set some goals/rules/guidelines for myself. I didn't stick to ... schedule for next semester is theoretically 11 fewer hours per week, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  include (photo cred for all 3E pics above: Sarah H. '19) Written by Allan ... Sundays trying to figure out which venue optomizes everything we wanted for ... Delivery, after working together for the first time to make sure this event

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  purchases to the cashier and slide my card and pay for my things, but then the ... for my project at work, a new and important project that I completed ... personal identity in an MIT class, in pairs, and a classmate comes up to me

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... , but we grew up in Denver, where there was no one like us. This wasn ... traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  Expansion Director for LTI (pretty much the guy that facilitates LTI ... focus on student leadership and provides many opportunities for students ... and service program for Boston-area high school students. The mentoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  vegetables ($2.00 per 16 oz.) doused in oyster sauce and Sriracha, digging for ... Infinite Corridor for pasta salads and cold trays of curry leftover from ... incomprehensible store layout turns shopping for dried split peas into a labrythine

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up and down the California coast visiting friends and family. I worked last

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This ... great dome, and a peek at what the dome looks like up close. I'm not aware

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009