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  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of Texas, by the border), designed this banner. She is considering studying ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  : - Have one of my songs used in a major motion picture, or at least on The ... enough THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: - Ukrainian - Italian - Welsh THREE ... - Bryan Nance (only sometimes) THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: - Coffee

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  story: my first term at MIT, I had passed out of single variable calculus ... sort of community service, do you think id have a chance at getting a ... applications after spending much of last week reading international applications

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  science aspect of my degree altogether and dedicated myself to sociology ... River and of boats? Every week, I've been meeting at the MIT Sailing ... I spent a lot of my teenage years just being angry at everything and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... Mauritius (Geraldine), and of course to meet many of the parents, too (hi!). The "Meet the Bloggers" party was a lot of fun, not because anything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... so silly. Pointless even. When I arrived at MIT in the fall of 2009, I ... that matched what I want out of my time at MIT. Now Sigma Chi might not

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

      After several hours of discussing so many good ... a Victorian woman but now creates chaotic Google Docs at 2AM (though ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  local school, I applied at University of Texas, but my first choice was ... Institute of Technology. She said she arrived at high school with a passion ... ranked second in my class and I applied at several out-of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... junior year and it's exactly due to the above quote. A lot of my time at ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  don't have anything left at the end of the year. it sucks. it also ... where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  still some fun things to be done though :).  Here’s a look at the fake ... A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  sense of independence and exploration. For my dad, watching me leave Texas ... at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  surprised - and interested - at some of the comments (each of the paragraphs ... computer science, and a grad-level class in medieval French lit at U of L ... prize APs at the expense of everything else, the parents who hound their

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of ... second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we ... enjoy a variety of activities, ranging from small engineering projects at

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... :50: "There are a lot of geniuses at MIT, but there are also some that feel like ... student at MIT - see her MIT mug in front of her) 5:04 to 5:11: "There's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT Bulletin (course and degree catalog). You'll find descriptions of MIT ... what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  memeber of the build time (staying at school until 10 PM on the days leading ... about duct tape that makes you think of Texas? Also, Merudh asked awhile ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... counseling at Norfolk Academy, in Virginia, says one of his seniors was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006