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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production—it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... how much I wanted to come here! - and now I'm here, and it's been two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  building things in East Campus to leading dorms tours to Meet the Bloggers to ... liveblog to share. Me with our new dean of admissions, Stu Schmill. Matt Mc ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start ... left except to speedrun most of my second major in one semester. Maybe if

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't know how to feelBut I wanna tryI don't know how to feelBut someday, I mightSomeday, I might ... Think I forgot how to be happySomething I ... same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer ... [annotation note="I'll write about them in a separate blog post :)"]new books ... change in focus. I'm hoping to at least submit it for publication, if not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... ; Hanna's gone off to New York for grad school, but I'm stuck around because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  in handwritten script to make the comic feel more journaled ... going into the electron to depict energy going in and another squiggly ... sitting at a lunch table in the distance. The surrounding is the New Vassar

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  night until probably 4:30, didn't get to bed until six in the morning ... in the Infinite, as well as a friend to the janitorial staff and the ... 10, which itself acts as a memorial to those in the MIT community lost

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I ... capsaicin to get a really spicy dish?" "Actually…that would work. Okay ... a treat to join in on. And if you enjoy guitar or the flute or the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my ... Christmas, so it’s excusable, right? Cut to Line #2: Security. So I stood in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure ... , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  opportunity to learn about yourself." Students sometimes get so wrapped up in ... , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... completely honest about yourself in your application, you are sure to be happy

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  online at http://vagina.mit.edu ...and to help you get in the V-Day spirit ... I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in ... having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs ... (MAS.S65). In the classs, grad students would be exposed to various ... , a beach. It could also vibrate in a pattern similar to a heartbeat to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  one of few places he was interested in, although he admits to not expecting to get in. Other places he applied to include Caltech, which turned ... Sciences) class in which he gets to create multiple design sketches, capped

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016