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• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the ... you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it ... active field of research, because I want to get involved in areas that ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  leaps and bounds in front of others in their fields. They know how to slam ... inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  summer getting all my safety training and learning how to do things like ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found ... hours a day. You're probably used to being in class seven or eight hours a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... refreshing to make memories that are anchored in places beyond my bedroom. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to ... comes to math. To some extent, I’ve learned how to quiet this voice: I ... . Sometimes, I wish I could get rid of the voice. That it didn’t just linger in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  get first! It was a dream come true to compete in a sport I’d been ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  you should try not to get too trapped in the bubble, so that you can ... anyone that does that). I can't really tell you how to best learn ... how few hours they slept or how many hours they studied. I want to see

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  good questions like "how did you get so fresh?" and "what is knowledge ... answer:       I have been privileged to know and befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer ... of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training ... championship game. In the championship, we play the only NEWMAC team we lost to ... ,” which refers to how relentless we are to goal, and how the only way we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  appointment with a doctor (which we had to pay for separately) in order to get ... – and in the sheer time it can take to get medical care, time that should ... flexible, with open access, meaning we can go to any participating in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... blood in the sky. From the Man in the Moon, to the embittered savant ... don’t get oxygen until the troposphere… hmm. How light can I get the

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  get used to this new paradigm. IAP was as fun as it was tumultuous. I ... in the midst of a lot of relationship-related conflict to be reminded ... 'm excited to see how different my academic life will feel now that I'm out of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  pressure to get A's in high school, although that doesn't mean I actually ... course 2, but how easy is it to take classes in neuroscience outside of one ... that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006