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• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  you can come and go. You can do anything and you don’t have to do ... at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room. Paradoxically, I was desperate to be and not to be noticed: maybe somebody would

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... to ensure the secrecy of the design until Premiere, we even resorted to ... , it was finally time to unveil the design to the entire class! The day

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it was negative, which was incredibly rude to the kind person who gave me the thoughtful gift. I say this to show how biased I was against Kaur

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of ... Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  encourage you to watch as many as you can because they show what MIT students are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  you haven’t checked it out yet, lookie here. To achieve this, we ate ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in Hamilton that I can break down and relate to my life, but this one strikes me as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  or 4W, depending on who you ask. Among many things, I am fortunate to ... fortunate to have a somewhat interesting story to tell. Read ahead ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim, I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  (totally intentional) distance, I want to tell you about four days this past ... am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel ... .06 (cell bio) lecture. I’m going to flatter myself by saying that I am 10

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... powerful pulpit to write and speak extensively about how to navigate the ... book, Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form ... opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has occurred since
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some very ambitious middle schoolers that came up to us. Three years ago, we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question ... specify what you contributed to). We’ve chatted a couple times with Lauren

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating ... which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022