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  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  blog, you may wish to start a new blog and start writing over the next ... of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a ... the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  desire to meet cool new people in a virtual semester, led me to apply for a ... . I wanted to explore how my hair sometimes swallows me both in volume ... fashion. It was launched in print and online in early 2018, with new issues

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... pressing desire to learn how to drive. The one time I used public transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  how much things should cost, but I still get surprises from time to time ... have to literally shift clocks in order to get sunrises and sunsets at ... -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... studying something that will get people to think I'm smart, I'm disappointed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  in New England: https://youtu.be/MLuYfAdExvI I recently had cause to ... on All the fruit, having him explain to me how lemon guava in Malaysia ... job that I love, getting to meet —  in person, or via application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  and how you might want to fill them in while planning your activities ... free to get funky with this one and try reading your essay in Broadway ... competition, get a head start in the womb!). Freshman year - sophomore year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third double happened to be in the same CMS.100 class as Danny. As soon as the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  . specifically: why I chose to major in physics and mathematics how I decided to go to grad school what I focused on during undergrad how helpful ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit ... favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  computer in addition to their Air. Wait for SSD prices to drop, then look at ... will, it comes pre-installed on many new laptops, but a downgrade to XP ... people that have them swear by them (similar to how Mac users swear by

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow ... that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... House Fenway is home to 20 MIT students (and cats) in Boston's Back Bay

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... restaurants I'd go to were [annotation note="small local chain with pizza that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  to the opportunities available in the United States and how anyone can ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... original Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes in 411 BC. This new version is thankfully in English and adapted to make more sense in modern times, and I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away ... and didn’t find written words to be the best medium to get them out, so ... own archives and emailed out to all ec residents for contributions. in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... over after a few days. 2. I am old and need to get a real person job. I'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... ones did, in the sense that I’ve had to do much more struggling and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... new sorority coming to MIT. There was an increased demand for greek life

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017