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  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  wanted to take at least one history class every semester for the rest of my ... . For one thing, some of the closest bonds I have been able to make at MIT ... * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar ... My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the ... examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of ... a first term freshman at MIT? What you'll generally see is something

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that ... Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  about the Division of Student Life (DSL) at MIT? Essentially DSL promotes ... offices at MIT are. Among them is @MITStudents, an account maintained by Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  still loved the class even at the end of the semester, even when I was ... Happy New Year, lovely folks of the internet! Kids 'round these parts are back at school today - I dropped my brother off at school this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  at Mike's Pastry. Mike's Pastry is one of many bakeries and cafes in ... course of my time at MIT, I've had many treats from Mike's Pastry - but, as ... In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  Just finished reading Paul's entry about the Guy Fawkes hacks at MIT and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New York Times, which at one point made me use so much Rails I had dreams about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  line for McDonald’s at 7 AM somewhere in the middle of New York state; I ... each individual circumstance. At the end of the day, MIT won West Point ... . So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible ... study area or intended program of study at MIT. If a summer semester is
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last ... like the way I’ve turned out at MIT, but you always wonder). The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... of Godel Escher Bach in my bookcase at home, right next to Marvin ... at 5am, this was another “no brainer’ to me. Of course I would go to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  of campus, and ended up with some great wine glasses at the end. Nice ... While the period known as "End of term" certainly brings finals ... conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  at MIT." So true. (Click here to watch an amateur video of the Joneses ... on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening ... experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  about their worries and we shared something at the top of an abnormally ... ecstasy of hot water and then cold, over and over, next to the mountains. At ... look through all of them. The raw excitement at seeing that really you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  you but kind of hard to start doing. At the beginning of the summer, I ... attempted to start writing a novel at the beginning of the summer, before ... colors appear nearly indistinguishable at night. Ancient birds were one of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Athenians! Two hundred at least by Aeschylus, Sophocles ... know that it's totally possible to study Lots Of Things at MIT - to be ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  the God of War team.[/annotation] after dropping all of my stuff at my ... pictures of at Santa Monica Studios :P the road that i work on has tons ... playstation office :) the kratos statue at the front of the Santa Monica

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019