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  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I’m ... . And it continues all the way through senior year—I haven’t had a single

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  are even a little bit complete!  I'm thinking about all the blogs that ... helps. I'm wondering about this one Taylor Swift lyric: "How can a person ... , except for the fact that it's a lot more applicable to real life. I'm

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... dressed (in my world, putting on track pants and a t-shirt != getting ... 's definition of a "spousal equivalent" is pretty generous -- you don't actually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her ... that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  strike a balance. When I’m stuck on something, whether I can’t get values ... the groove of working through a task now that I’m in the second week of ... towards a solution instead of expecting him to solve the issue for me. I’m

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  with cream on top, and a fried egg, if you're a lady. But I didn't get ... Shake, not a... I don't know, a Lait Shake? I really don't speak this ... being contacted by a wireless host called MCDONALDS. Yeah, I can't really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  ://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is ... -mail-related features you're used to, but a lot of people aren't big fans of webmail. Its ... perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  awesome person and holds a lot of crossword championship titles, I don't ... learning how to belly-dance, and now I have 2.670 and I haven't really had a ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  campus. i'm ready to sing with my a cappella group again (shameless plug ... (21A.819). and i'm excited to meet the 2020s! what are you all doing ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  working on? 2: Oh, I'm not really a hacker--I'm just here helping my ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  didn't spend much time listening to music, she listened to a diverse ... internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those ... is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can't

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  Stretch I don’t think there’s a program called ukulele, but I’m interested ... -computer, the HP K701. Now, I'm in my mid-20s. The fact that I have a home ... I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... .S.S. Constitution in Boston Harbor The Constitution, a.k.a. Old Ironsides, is a three ... Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to ... intellectual stimulation. I didn't want college to be just a continuation of high

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... -faculty divides, and promote interactions. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS ON THE FOUNDING OF TwT ... history." I planned out a way to make this happened and reached out to T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  files. One of them contains a lot of documents that I definitely wouldn’t ... file splayed beside me, a blueprint of sorts of the next book I’m working ... wasn’t quite the case. But a lot of good friendships stayed the same and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... wasn't from MIT before coming here. I grab a bowl of rice and adobo, head ... asks if I'm free to play some Among Us, and we play for a few hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  Philosophy of Education, I responded right away… But that email wasn't from a ... didn’t even want to. 98LH was an academic adventure, and a fascinating ... -name basis communications aren’t just a cool feature; they are a sign of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2011. We received over 50 applications for just a few available spots. The vast majority were from incoming freshman, but there were about a dozen from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  : Introductory math classes at MIT don't always work for me. I had a wonderful experience in 18.100A, Real Analysis, but didn't enjoy 18.06, Linear Algebra ... ask us to all return to the original classroom. It wasn't a strong start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021