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• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  , interrupted by the lights of Boston and the red lightning in the distance. The ... post. And it’s real! I’m working on a low cost, high-risk project in the same lab I’ve been in for the past year. It’s extremely unlikely to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... . I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process ... outdated. This is how I went about the college recruiting process for soccer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  I do not know if I have mentioned this on the blogs or in public, ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a ... Potter earrings,” said my little sister.  In truth, I’d thought of zero of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  because I've accidentally included my foot in this photo. What you can ... minutes before lifting, I sit in a corner and nibble on a breakfast cracker ... robot as thanks" in return for 15 minutes of my day, and because I am a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... story. Wow! I also have a friend who wrote a one-act play that was ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the ... how many you can actually handle. Waste time happily on a late night or ... taking 4 technical classes in your first semester to avoid burn-out. I made

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  to dedicate. But simultaneously I think how much effort you put in ... humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first

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

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  one of the topics in the class I found most exciting - one about which I ... friend Nick and I were in the student center when we happened to run into ... dedicated to imagining how a state could justly arise in accordance with the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  dance." Cynthia O' '16 and I swooned in our seats and ate free shish ... 'm qualified to be here because I am a black man in America, and that does not ... 'm not here to get you to buy a CD. I don't care if you come to my next

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... at least results in good photographs). The other classes I am taking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... - Adventure Outfitters. “Can you start tomorrow?” “Yes! Yes, I can!” I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  .009 makes me (and how I can't stop thinking about it). Sorry it's been so long ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  activities, so I didn’t participate in it, but seeing how much fun everyone had ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  first filling meal I'd had in Japan, since everything here is SO tiny, but ... buildings in Japan, and from the top you can see Kyoto Tower in its full glory ... This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  the people who were juniors in my freshman year, i can only laugh at the ... i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red ... stressed out.   ivy Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my ... counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  District (where I buy hair dye when I put green streaks in my hair every so ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt ... me (with my hair down - it's usually in a ponytail). I've decided that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  Disorder” (or “I see everything”) I was tar-trap black in love with you. I ... The last post I made was about my summer, and I haven’t even written about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  with self-censoring properties. How do you contain something you can ... listening. "You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief ... call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I

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

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... workings of my brain. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m enrolled in 24.09 Minds

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013