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  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life ... central part of your college life, wherever you choose to pursue it. My ... just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  of Middle East Biology Principles of Macroeconomics Religious ... : Eric Lander “has been one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project” and in 2003 “has been named 'Scientist of the Year' by the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... application to be a volunteer member of an advisory group in my city, and never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness ... hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But subconsciously, my amygdala was processing all kinds of emotions. These emotions

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50" 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers ... mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of ... garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  universe and did the impossible and fell in and out of love in a million ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real ... seniors all made fun of me and my blog, which makes them so uncool. Tsk tsk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  ’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly ... ’s hitting me that this is the halfway point now, and some of these new college ... wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  ’m assuming that, especially after writing all of your college essays, you know ... To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6:28 p.m., you probably experienced a barrage of feelings. These might

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  college, and yes, you should celebrate your awesomeness for the rest of your ... Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his ... completely lost all control of any higher brain function. I've spent the last

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  our Brown University friends, who were touring startups as part of their ... visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... whispers of "I miss you" as electricity carried our voices hundreds of miles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  + times growing up and in college, and lots of kitchen experimentation post-college ... college, you can write whatever the heck you want." -The same wise person ... student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014