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  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... futures. At one point, we sat down and listened to a sophomore tell us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  didn't feel invested in my classes. Finding the right fit can be a ... Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me...  but more on that later! This blog isn't about the lesson I learned this ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... year you actually have several feet of snow that serves as a sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to much around me, when suddenly someone said, "Hey, Kim! Want a roll?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Last Wednesday, somewhere between a biology test and a chemistry lecture, I realized that I’m more than halfway done with my first semester ... classes, when I woke up extra early to make sure I wasn’t late. I remember

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  home with a big box of LEGOs. $1500 worth of LEGOs to be precise. I don't ... . Two days left, a robot that didn't work, and no clue how to fix it. We ... In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  don't ever blog about what we do. Laura did field hockey, I'm in pistol ... shot, just down from center My final turkey wasn't really a turkey, it ... , likewise with high school. This blog isn't about elementary, middle, or high

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  flairs, slabs of pure color spread by a palette knife. I couldn’t see the ... , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best pastries I’d ever had: croissants, a baguette, a squishy thing, a glazed

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  that if a topic didn't make sense or you don't completely understand what ... MIT career learning in small class sizes and with a personal connection ... ) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January ... interactions on Paris buses and subways. :-P (I hadn't seen it, and it's worth a ... so far. Technically it's a grad class, and yeah the class is about half

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  visage. I duct taped a garbage bag around the hole because I didn't want my ... inflatable rafts with a hot dog grill in the center raft?' and [name I don't remember] said, 'That's a great idea!' Then [other name I don't remember

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  work. As bad as it sounds, I feel like every day I'm losing a bit of my ... having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it ... don't know, many undergraduates, including myself, have been struggling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  didn't have a concrete plan to do so. With that in mind, I set a goal to ... out[annotation note="a bag of mini m&m's, a carton of grapes, and ... There's a large park system in Boston called the The Emerald Necklace

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  involve some more stuff, but don’t worry about that for now."]in a vacuum ... {\partial \mathbf{E}}{\partial t} \end{aligned}[/latex] As a result, every circuit ... , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... moved to an auditorium indoors because of a thunderstorm, but that didn't ... the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  B_GzbdQDRZsGTHk0tWAwKHHQ%3A1678655290729%26source%3Dln&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjIsMjM ... sus. Basically, it’s a digital painting program with a  t h i r d ... as a person and an engineer. Although she didn’t apply to MIT, I always

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  do a dance video, I knew it couldn’t be just any old video of us ... point, I don’t know when, a line from the Magnets chorus mosied into my ... . These were people who wanted the best for us but wouldn’t understand why a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  artist tips. One of them was “use references,” and since I’m a compulsive ... drawing already helped me out in a neat little way, and I’m not the only one ... This week was a four-day week, which made it extremely weird. It

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won't ... things yourself. i've learned that even when i'm in a "leadership position ... 've worn many hats with the student groups i've worked with, and i wouldn't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022