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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  didn’t die! I sped down Mass Ave, which can be congested enough in a car ... shops and how I exist within them. I was at the moto fest with a white guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... in the moment. And even though I thought I new my friends well, there ... is connected in a web of yarn: a pretty cool visualization of how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... nonetheless. Today, for example, in one hour alone I had to handle one accident ... and family, then a three day vacation in Atlantic City (most of which I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  -spaced pages in Word later, everything made sense. Or at least I hope it did ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... one morning - I'm still constantly awed at how beautiful the change of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work ... -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this ... statistics class at MIT! I’m still not entirely sure how “mathematical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  textbook? Watch videos? Take a course? Let me share with you how I started ... school - I learned how to purchase a domain name and hosting space. I set ... chapters before I got interested in doing other things."] sophomore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  : Where can I start and how do I know? I've tried my hand in media studies ... creation and lead the team in very cool directions. But I don't know how? Or ... prince of Wales. I devoured the book in two days, and after I finished, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote ... far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for ... are there. Next we have "apple," and what I presume to be "apple" in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  behaviors and beliefs of people who live in it? How can we change our ... how much I did not want to fucking drop this class. In the five weeks I ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... saw myself smiling in the mirror during the jazz combo, or I would share ... time), often rambling about how exhausted/stressed I was. My caffeine

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches ... addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any ... gained from it, how it has changed you, etc. Another piece of advice I ... the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... cheerleading can be found here -- it's a better picture mostly because I'm doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field ... departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right ... , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ... similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... eloquent since honestly I don't really know how to explain it, but sometimes ... I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... most I've ever run in my life Attended two winter carnivals and even a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Shiozawa. Afterward, we went out for drinks with Germain. I can’t believe I got to chat casually with a Paris opera star. I'm in the same picture ... of the seats in the Opera Bastille means that the stage can be flat

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018