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• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the ... stayed up in my life (with the exception of New Year’s Eve in Ukraine and ... Boston activity I've done in college. Sure, I go to Faneuil Hall, but only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  able to afford to fix up our house and get Cory a new (used) car, and I ... . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... question.   These little things reminded that I was, indeed, in a new ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... 's an attempt to get my smarter peers interested in it so that they might ... more). Furthermore, I am not incredibly confident in my ability to get a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... employed by writing new blog posts, and I hope to do about one a week from ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  first in line to get our posters signed! With our loot tucked safely ... awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... meetings, and new advertisements to peruse. Most people just stream by

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... amount of work you're capable of. “What SAT score do I need to get in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... while blindfolded. But learning how to listen to a piece was only half of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every ... and figuring out what it takes to get an A in a class at MIT.  Aim high

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  being in a completely new city. Maybe it was getting to know people from ... you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... ’t trace back to the specific moment that I fell in love with science fair

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill ... happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  learning community in which you will be encouraged to explore how these core ... different disciplines. Our goal is to forge new understandings of how ... front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... during May if I wanted to squeeze in a respectable 8-week internship. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  celebrated July 4th in the most American way we knew how - going to the beach ... , getting stuck in the elevator due to aforementioned obesity, plummeting to ... Graduate - spend a summer in Boston. I don't think you'll ever really get to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  new restaurants, and to spend extended periods of time in nature. And ... event, and I don’t need notifications to remember what’s going on in my ... ? Is this all?” It feels uncomfortable to rotate slowly in place, without

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... enough to survive out in the wild. Thankfully was able to enter the ... general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ’s Cafe- Conveniently located right next to the Koch Building in Kendall ... distance  from my dorm to feel like an excursion of a sort CAVA - also in ... the Indian in me appreciates being able to eat with my hands hehe El

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  out. in his post, sam wrote: Do new things often. This seems to be ... i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022