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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... -being? Please take a few minutes to participate and provide your perspective. To ... presented in a way that individual respondents cannot be identified. If data

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  he didn’t want to move away someday. He told me that there’s a feeling ... .     Voices from the community: I’m not a child abuse survivor ... report) it was just speculation or rumor and you can't fire a person or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  a not-fancy apartment. That I still don’t usually feel that I belong ... 18. I don’t think I can overstate what a big deal that would have been ... wasn’t possible back then. I’m more concerned about other people in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I'm ... I'm glad I'm five stories above it. To my left, a full-length red ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Experimentation I also shopped 21M.601 - Drawing for Designers for a couple weeks ... class; I didn't develop many of them fully for lack of time, and as a result I can't say I'm very proud of everything I made (some of it still

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic ... beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  ;t. Sarun wrote: If one of my essays is not...well, a conventional ... : My High school didn't have a math club nor a science club, but I wanted to participate in a math or science competition. I didn't get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  consuming some content lately that has brought us joy, so we decided to make a ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a high school senior trying to distract yourself or take a break from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  trained as a yoga teacher. I’m hoping to get trained as a yoga teacher, too ... don’t know if I could ever go back. A paper on DNA replication I need ... my desk. A lamp, to keep Hephaestus’s life interesting when I’m up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  through break. Do I have a physics project too? Not at all :) I'm spending ... about getting a suitable amount of sleep each night, but I'm definitely ... I've run out of towels and can't possibly take a shower till I wash my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  after a movie to discuss it, even though the professor isn't there ... gave me a renewed sense of purpose, which was unexpected but something I'm ... audience and he said, "MIT is a place where strange people who don't fit in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  -year Afeefah didn't think possible. It's become a routine of going to bed ... constantly didn't check time. To a certain extent, I've become a prisoner to ... life isn't meant to be reduced to a list of things to do. Not Gonna Throw

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but ... possible way, or 5+ people congesting the hallway like a sinus infection

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  neither a full week nor about food that much, so I’m here for my ... with a true week of my authentic (and half-assed) cooking over IAP. I’m ... time i got to the buffalo chicken too, so there wasn’t a big point

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , and since I just got a thesis I don’t think I’m even a typical master ... don’t see any students I recognize, and sink a little lower in my seat ... . Apparently there is a dragon. I don’t remember what I was grading but I must

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

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  me, please don't say as much. I get it. I'm lame. I already know. ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... 's hard, but I just don't understand, you know?" or "wait, why does everyone

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it ... . ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This just isn't it.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... .009 Fundamentals of Programming ES.1803 Differential Equations 21M.601 Drawing for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  own work. I know a lot of people who feel this way, but I don't think I'm ... happen much, though. I'm not really a fan of reading fiction as much as I ... I hadn't been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could never condense her into one story. So I won’t. Here, I also have my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015