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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... time I tried to build something (an ill-fated arch of cardboard boxes in ... ? Pojectiles in 6-120? Mr. Facilities man, I have no idea what you're talking

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the ... considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  glad that I totally switched gears in college. I think I would have been ... 'd excelled in high school; I would have been all "oh, I remember the time when ... what I'm doing and such -- so I thought I'd clue you all in on my raison

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  questions remind me of a time when I was coming out as gay in my 30s, when I ... hand, and their scooters tossed on their sides in the driveway, and I ... until recently. And I suspected, not in a very clear light when it did. It

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... probably the reason that I ended up on 5th East, which has changed my life in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• 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 ... hobby for me, and I assumed I was the only person who would be interested ... out in my sophomore year. This way, I know I and my friends can

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

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  distances, because when they arrived, I was appalled at how 16 feet was, in ... Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a ... , and I feel like some of my overthinking actually paid off. Thus, in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... think about all the things I would miss about my old job but now those ... also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• 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 ... Syndrome, but I cannot explain how satisfying it was to see this website ... to learn something new, I would very strongly recommend checking out

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... ." I hope that this gives some sense of how much was riding on the LHC ... period. Naturally, my friends and I decided to go. We walked in early and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... means owning and really understanding your part, while keeping in mind how ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up ... my favourite drinks back home in South Africa; naturally, I was excited ... has the drink, though, so I lived in blissful ignorance about the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... stuff. I haven't decided how I feel about this. Actually, things have ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am ... requirements. By assisted, I mean something more like “forced to comply in order

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  something. I didn't bring my camera, but only because I knew Bryan would be ... around. Give me anything that has application in the real world and I hate ... beginning to be a bit apprehensive of math (I'm in BC this year) even though I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college ... Orientation, put myself on their mailing lists. But seeing how i'm still evading ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I ... (I was in a single, which actually really sucked for Orientation), so ... out where the laundry room in the dorm was. Crazy how things come full

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  : Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the ... that this streak would continue. Furthermore, I enjoyed the introductory ... Writing Autobiography"] 21W.022.[/annotation] In fact, I loved this class

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  is, and it reminded me how grateful I am to live in a community where ... Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  coffee table. And then I remembered the bulletin boards in the Infinite Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without ... director and I had to email Chris, who was in the middle of committee still

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012