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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to ... interesting trying to find out my style and I feel like I'm listening a lot more ... perspective, but as a reader. 21M.150 Intro Music Theory I'm taking an intro

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  inched closer to a month since my last post obviously I couldn’t fit ... think 25/31 is pretty good, and even a month later I’m still more ... thesis. I’m not sure exactly when that happened, but I know why. For a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  with a close friend I hadn’t spoken to in a long time. He told me “I’m ... I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad ... fantasy weren’t exactly wrong - more just like a very tiny and particular

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing ... tweeting" (although isn't all tweeting sort of live by nature?) of my ... , TX Wednesday and Thursday (10/6-7) - Austin, TX Then I'm headed back

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  I've got about an hour before I'm forced off these blogs temporarily ... that's the kind of thing that tickles your fancy, then I have a nice ... keeps cropping up every year around decisions times and can routinely be a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Square (I know, I know….give me a break, my title is long and I’m not a ... master’s at UMD and now I’m a Terrapin If anything, I can say that this ... you that I’m an admissions counselor, not a rapper) Check 1, Check 2

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  Rhodes Scholar -an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (May 1998) -an M.B.A ... wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  though! Lessons Learned -most people don’t maintain a 5.0 forever, and the ... that. Every week, I’d mentally dread the labs, given that they were on a Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... on some aspect I don’t feel like I understood. 2) I think you only

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  history of being a feared team in the NEWMAC. I’m sure the friends and ... , didn’t realize just how much of a powerhouse MIT was. But if you think ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  the commuter rail, a train system that connects to "the T" subways. The ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  March, a presentation that accounted for 30% of my grade, and what felt ... test after learning a very large bulk of the material that was all fair game to be tested on. Luckily, that week prior and weekend, I spent a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  deeper in old sources of comfort. a return to times that weren't ... provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... bodies. One of our flyers, Ami '06, looks like a leopard because she has so many bruises, and I'm not even kidding. One of the coolest things we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  finished eating. I didn't think much of the half hour until a few weeks ... given me pause, but honestly I didn't even give it a second thought ... .   I feel it when I'm hiding in a dorm room with twenty people, all

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet coke. 03. I'm the youngest child. 05. I like getting lap dances. 06. I ... with only one or two people. 09. I can't live without lipgloss. 10. I can't

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  mind don’t matter. It’s a cliche because it’s true, and we tend to ignore ... means that if you tell a friend you can’t talk to them right now, or can’t ... feeling so great, or need a break, then they probably wouldn’t mind. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020