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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... talk a lot about FIT & MATCH. Think of your application as you would

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... childish behavior. How clueless was I? [caption id="attachment_86641" align ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . I tried old math olympiad problems that would have otherwise remained ... hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  (Lunar New Year themed, in the McCormick Green Room!), but I felt like this ... -up[/caption]When I walked in, instead of the flowers and greenery I was expecting, I ... new "hidden spaces" around campus. I feel like no matter how many years

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... cannot do everything I want to.[/annotation] And this teaches you how to ... 't walk quietly through a room in the early morning, think about how

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to ... around and admired the flowers that are suddenly in bloom. I have done

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play ... obvious, I love playing! Twice a week in Kresge Auditorium, however, I also

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in two years. mocha moves — for my 5th semester on mocha, i danced in only one section, which i co-choreographed. i don't know if i would have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... interesting to me as a (then) prospective History double major. I came in ... thoroughly enjoyed it. I appreciate the well-aged humor in letters staff sent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  , These are in-jokes which I would take too long for me to explain to you ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... Beethoven's 9th and Schubert's Winterreise, both of which I've sung in various

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  that if we got snowed in then they would send a helicopter =) Off we went ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... as a kid. After a while it became apparent that I was stronger in the classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  I would slip into deep thought and realize how lucky I felt to be here ... understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... -looking people, about the incoming p-sets and how much we would enjoy them (classic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  things to do in three and a half days of little sleep. I would love to ... ever. In summary: because CPW. But here is more (from April 8, 2014): I ... 's around 30 pages), the task was quite impossible. After all, how do I pick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I ... /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  I wrote lightly about scrapbooking in my coping with anxiety blog post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look into my life, and how I feel. My hopes and dreams, and my tremendous

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  him when he sliced me in the face! Then I beat him up and kicked him ... freshmen in my suite about how the story behind my accident is really lame and how I needed to come up with something cooler to tell people. Laura

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  , because I thought it would be mostly political theory, but I was assured ... statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020