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• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten back from russia and since getting to college and meeting so many new ... feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag ... 's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give ... Syndrome, but I cannot explain how satisfying it was to see this website

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end ... Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  hazed because everyone understands how rough it is to get thrown in this ... taught me how to use the kiln in the Edgerton 4-409 makerspace. When ... ends there as a new era starts. But what happens when you start to get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else ... or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  ': { float newSpeed = in.substring(1).toFloat(); stepper.setSpeed(new ... ': { float newAngle = in.substring(1).toInt(); servo.write(new ... . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... think so. And Ryan went to the Party in Philly: I went to the admitted student party in Philadelphia tonight. I knew it was going to be fun, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... when I get back to campus it'll be back to IHTFP, but in some weird ... been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing homes, in ... ="attachment_115159" align="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of ... often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning was foreign to me, and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three ... clear what the new policy meant, as if in disbelief that it could even ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , you had to get in line early for ring sales to get a subsidy. Therefore, Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014