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• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  much” to “what’s up” or “i’m good” to “how are you” knowing how to use ... span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  in Cambridge for summer 2023. I would be working on a more technical ... that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published ... even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  because it was all I had lab experience in and would be the easier route, or ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio: Course 6-7, or 7, or maybe 20.  I had loved AP Biology in high school

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... . And I wasn’t quite sure where in my evening the hours for that work were

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... , the flash mob became a relevant subject in my life. I started attending ... group called the "Banditos Misteriosos" runs flash mobs in Boston. I got

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... , rounds the corner from a hallway orthogonal to the one I'm in and sprints ... hall, and slams down into a couch next to Eric. I stand in the doorway

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  atomic physicist. In fact, I definitely would have tried to angle myself ... wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  again. Definitely in the top three of things I’ve read all semester ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... moment when I realized she would not speak, that she would sit there and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  nuts, would I get in or not, if I did which would I pick, and if I didn ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... we would actually find out. I'm told that all the letters were mailed

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  how much I enjoyed being in the makerspace, making physical objects that ... ! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation & ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  voices in my head always used to be questioning, that I would go back and ... , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• 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 ... blog about, so here I am. But switching website designs also means ... time I tried to build something (an ill-fated arch of cardboard boxes in

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

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... said. But they would've said it if I'd asked. Totally. ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I ... be offering their lessons. I actually became intrigued in ballroom ... started. They will be every Wednesday night in Burton Conner. I might check

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We ... &2 apps i've been using a lot Discord - literally would not be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  and I was in the passenger seat trying my best to keep up with how OP ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... type of creativity that I enjoy expressing but rarely get to in highly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020