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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  The MIT Class of 2013 has officially arrived! With this day upon us, we conclude the series Introducing the Class of 2013. Merritt '13 ... : June 1, 2009 "There are components of people and components of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... unpack and set up our beds. We got a tour of the cabin, and then three of ... way, we saw the shell of a blue car, and we chained together clover

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late ... preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... 'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL ... the streamer world because I find the notion of livestreaming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... titled Tips for Finding a UROP, as well as a series of advice and resources ... Experimental Learning Exchange (ELx) portal has a list of UROPs, MISTI programs

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth aware of itself. Maybe New York was like that too, full of feelings I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... significant ingestion hazard under anticipated conditions of normal use.” Our

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no time has passed. At the same time, all my energy from the beginning of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things you see upon entering our apartment. For those of you who have read my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of ... that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of ... happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... March, a presentation that accounted for 30% of my grade, and what felt

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of itself), it felt foreign, nothing like walking through the familiarity of the infinite. Maybe it seems silly, but even grabbing something out of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017