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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone ... . Even under the graces of Pass No Record, I feel stressed out: it builds

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of

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

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and ... applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and then cheated, like an idiot! So of course he got caught, and I’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... it's considered the definitive biography of Franklin's life. Everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... during school, though of course all the details have changed i still live with a large number of friends, though instead of a dorm with 18-to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I ... particularly stressed about day 1 of my senior year. I was, however, feeling

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which ... this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023