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• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  how to work in schools across America to change how children learn. I applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift ... far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a Friday night. I was one of two people in the audience. In my defense, I saw it so I could tell my 7-year old sister about it. Also in my defense

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  concert is an arrangement of the hymn “How Can I Keep From Singing?” which ... . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I ... that I’ve been able to sing with a large ensemble in person, and it is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone a Drink How to Get Someone to Buy You a Drink ... advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  the pain. Wonderful. In a few minutes, I can barely move both my arms ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk ... the MIT Museum specifically to buy nerdy earrings (I recently pierced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  store before you buy it. I've had laptops in my Best Buy shopping cart ... I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  internet. In other words, you can use up to 2 gigs of web space as an MIT student - this guide tells you a bit more about how you can do that. Now, I ... can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant ... semester i tell myself i am as busy as can be, and then the next semester i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... working at Capital IQ in NYC this summer. We write software that can be used

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  YOUR HAIR HAS ROOM FOR! Need more color in your hair? We can fix that ... :17-24:17 All the ponies in this town are CRAZY. Do you like ponies? I like ponies ... Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... where you might fit in here. Your MIT experience can be really different

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  Transgender Anti-Discrimination”. In essence, the bill says that you can’t be ... of this vote, but I’ll be okay because I have my fort! Yes, my fort is ... . Others There a few other groups that I'm not very involved in. There's a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  the end of the day. I don't know how one can can feel so long when a ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this ... fast, sometimes, especially in calculus, but I'd rather be a little

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  right. In the process of helping build a very large fort, I picked up a ... declared a double major in CMS (Comparative Media Studies) so that I can get ... Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019