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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... with all the members of Toons at that callback, I really enjoyed it. It ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  rest at the roots of the ecosystem we are all a part of: generosity ... connection only when I’m at the precipice of catastrophe; I want to appreciate ... ’s abundant. I am not always doing my best at all of these things, but I am

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  at the end of your college application journey? What's the point of ... of my students heard about finding their puzzle piece and the magic ... CPWs past on the walls, and a picture of the quad near room 3-108 rested

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Mystery Hunt is starting, today, January 15th, at 12 PM EDT. MIT Mystery ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to ... within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get ... representatives My group consists of myself, a PhD student from Georgia, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... fantastically different culture and feeling of community!  My absolute favorite

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Boston tradition – 115 years running (no pun intended). Of course, I ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... around 11:20 am; thanks to the number of spectators heading that direction

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... any questions - I know it's kind of hard to follow at first. (And as ... Ok. Well, I've been kind of busy these days. Taking 5 classes (2 CIs

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT ... night of Live Action Anime 2007: Madness at Mokuba. Yes, you read that ... '73 PhD '76, one of the seven members of the Board of Governors of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward ... class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . While I've done a ton of digital photography, though, I've (literally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting, direct applications etc. Less than 20% of students got their job

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  top it Yum yum -- romantic dining Aujourd'hui -- at the top of my list ... Street subway stop -- at the crossroads of the red line, the green line ... , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , Four years of my life, when everyone at my high school literally forgot I ... that, in a tense situation? On top of that, this was all at MIT (which ... minds and I am proud of them for that.) And then it all starts coming at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  hyperventilated a bit. At 9:10, they called me in. I was ushered through a set of ... In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... GOODNESS!" At some point, our director told us that he assigned roles based

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  , both of which are something far too common here at MIT. One problem with ... concert (although this was more of a sound-quality issue, even at MIT it ... from the Winter Logs concert, first: At the end of the concert, the Logs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  compounding nature of falling apart. I try my best to get ahead at the beginning ... interacting with Nexties at desk. I am reviewing a lot of my algorithms ... our discussions about it, which really drive at the heart of discussing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  knowing these sorts of details about someone to not talking at all? I ... at all. I think I need to channel that part of her—how well she ... In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021