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  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  To set the mood: i’m so tired… by lauv & troye sivan   What a headache Where does the time go?! We’re somehow halfway through the semester already. I envisioned…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  2.009 Product Engineering Processes. A senior capstone class option for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut – nocturne in c minor – Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Highlights from my schedule for the past 3 weeks.   Each year, fall semester…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , Katherine C. '19, Allan, Nia M. '20[/caption] Jebberwokey poem We recently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  Hiiiiiiiiiiiii 好久不见朋友s I missed you guys. I really really really did (except for you… you know who you are…) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  of Acts 19:9: "Summe weren endurid, or maad hard." But the word has two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah, probably. I want to talk…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  I took too many classes this semester. It was an accident. Usually five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me. Typically at that level,…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I’m studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or more officially, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich!) It all happened very quickly. I first heard about the program during the…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would…

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

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  shades (for reference, MAC has only 19 or so). That release went viral

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  thoughts about life from when I was 19 are forever preserved in this account

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  Personally, I have always considered myself a pretty social person. I have always loved just spending a bunch of time hanging out with friends and just kind of doing nothing…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  , Joel G. ‘18, Alexa J. '20, and Kevin S. '19. I think one of the things

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent time in the city before. Plus,…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven’t read Vincent’s amazing post “Black Lives Matter” (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  Island, a marine recreational park with remnants of a 19th-century fort

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  ’t exactly sure what my job would be, so in late October, Seiji ‘19 (the other

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing pushups. Or they resemble my PE…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  “Yes I said etc…… Just don’t think about it to much (oh and I’m working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)”   I am not sure…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015