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  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  , and social sciences - classes during your time here at MIT.  Of those ... right at the bat of the semester.  At any other time, the grade you get on ... spend many hours of many days at your FPOP having fun. After the final day

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  State Department travel warning was at level 3, the prospect of travel ... would calm down by mid-May. at the end of April, I had my training weekend ... pushed back to June 9th. at this point, I lost all hope of travel, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  program at the same campus (SSP Ojai 2006) my junior year of HIGH SCHOOL ... they're roommates! So all of us are doing well here at Sinai, and after ... of time, Simmons Hall opened during his senior year at MIT. It was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  peace of mind when facing the unknown." At that time in my life, I felt ... I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  amount of time at the pool table in Simmons, the pool table in Random, as ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  at all, and it would be sad but indicative of the fact that there's a ... and many other communities I'm familiar with at MIT, a lot of traditions ... freshmen. So, at the end of the day, traditions aren't super important and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn ... those are all awesome. This concerns saving money and taking advantage of the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  big presentations per year? They're usually at the end of a unit or ... snowballed into a lot of repressed anger and frustration being released at each ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out. Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  product showcase at the end of term in front of hundreds of industry experts ...   On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... about dining at the Institvte. (I'll admit that I'm also writing this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  visually striking. I made this one out of sticky notes at work! Excavated ... specific model from a book owned by one of my previous professors at MIT ... About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  at The Institute totally drives homesickness out of your mind simply ... this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017 ... 2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  many of their friends and classmates, also dream to study at MIT. ... As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  that recruits teams of writers at thousands of different universities. I ... I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  you'd probably be happy at any of them. Your experiences at each ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  moving her outside the stream of time! 2) Saw Machete on Friday night at ... Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010