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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  , they get to relive their triumph to an interested audience, in the latter ... part of MIT culture, that they believe in, that they wish to uphold for ... were part of the group that decided how to structure the Simmons

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  had slept) to go back to my room in East Campus and I don't know, listen to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... confidence that you have learned “how to think.” With that in mind, enjoy CPW ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we ... . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in ... everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... to the dining halls in other dorms, so do you cook every meal? Thanks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... the Van Allen Radiation Belt HOW COOL WAS THAT?! I was in. (But it

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , four friends and I drove to Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire, which somehow ... Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  might need more than the incredibly awesome How to Get Around MIT guide ... freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international ... 'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  fitness in January 2023, so I just had to get from 26.2 miles up to 100 ... lord, applying to jobs SUCKS. If you're not getting a referral or an "in ... 't think for a second that you're guaranteed to get in or stand a better

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• 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 ... , did a remote hackathon, voted by mail, and tried tons of new recipes. In

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  [/annotation]. One, to go along with Angela in Guam and Emily in New Jersey, Karthik ...  Let's get right to it. What went into making this year's Pi ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... class that's showed me how to be more comfortable with my writing and take ... they wanted to be featured and I got some poems in response! I absolutely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  we hadn't really done before, and to get to leave a "mark" in terms of ... Shuli: The new MIT Welcome Center opened in Kendall Square in September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... that rotting in bed alone is a privilege, not a right. So to distract ... time of editing, Tyler's new album comes out in two days and naturally I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  to get emails and screennames to be in touch with fellow MIT 2014s ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... . There will be meetings in dozens of locales, including New York City

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... evening against West Point, but first we had to get there. What we ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my ... is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from ... . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  is, and it reminded me how grateful I am to live in a community where ... to 2 prefrosh, so I’d get at least 1. But then I got 2… I also realized ... ’s like a student holiday!” I said, “We all get to see MIT through the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018