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• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in ... getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too ... year, I wanted to spend my three months back in Texas. I looked forward

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... 's website to see if I could afford one.  The math never worked :( In late ... an offer in December and, after realizing that I was about to have $50k

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... motivations? How many hours are we going to rehearse each week? What is the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  division biology elective which gets great reviews in the student subject ... take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology ... knows how I write, so I won't get the obligatory first paper boost for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... at MIT happens more often than some people do laundry. Best to get it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we ... to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  getting paid to sit in a place that generated so much joy. I love my UROP ... somehow will myself to trudge over to Stud5 to try and get some semblance of ... , getting an internship represents a lot more than just something to do over

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... . I can't wait to get back up north and start skiing with my family at ... find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... -dimensional than most media gives us credit for. It makes me sad to think how many ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own ... digression here. In any case, I also used to hate tea. I thought it tasted ... tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  now have to rely on catching myself in the right moment to get into the ... invited to go eat at Maseeh dining, I wanted to tap myself in so I could ... grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I ... mostly lab-based, which has proven to be quite fun given how many people I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  added. If you get into it, expect to leave it running in the background ... yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia ... is just how Nintendo RPGs tend to play out. (I remember playing Dragon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never ... :       Don't refer to yourself in the 3rd person. It

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  pursue the sport. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, how I ... and off the ice. I've even had the opportunity to perform in shows and ... 't always have time to get proper treatment and have to nurse it on my own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• 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 ... thankfully in English and adapted to make more sense in modern times, and I ... armies," even though she had decided in herself to leave the cause to be

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

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in ... not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005