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  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... earlier in the week. I never would have called an Excel file beautiful ... summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... then, in that very moment, that I had zero clue as to what to expect. I  had never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack in its entirety. I knew as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... as I was - but would MIT be so well suited for my second passion? Would a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  MATH CLASS HOW WILL I EVER END UP GRADUATING AND FORGET THE DOUBLE MAJOR ... holding dinner parties for my friends in the box I call home! With the knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was ... out as bad as Andi did, but I was flopping around quite a bit in the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  better quality than it would have been if I'd done it without her help. My ... student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  very, very long way. I actually would be interested in trying to rewrite ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  read all of it. No matter how many "it's a wonderful post" or "I loved it, by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  this mean great things in Kevin Rustagi's future. I would endeavor to ... about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... , couldn't I just give it to him, would he take it? Now??? Why yes, Ben

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... Development and Printing. So I'm in a class called "Digital and Darkroom ... increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school ... . Basically, I think we're going to have to sit in the back in 5.60 tomorrow so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... + tuna in red sauce = spaghettuna. I told my sister and her text message ... . Last week I pretty much lived in the Stata Center while taking ESD.950

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... in the acknowledgement of lessons and truths I wished were axioms ... psychological ones. In my second blogpost on MIT Admissions, I talked about a grad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  easier. I figured MIT was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... bad start - I participated in the Freshman Arts Preorientation (FAP

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  good things i have seen  recently, in no particular order at all. come ... because how can a small animal be so good (but maybe i'm just jealous 🤔 ... ? i didn't even know disney made songs that weren't in movies! bill

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... entertainment center and sofa, a kitchen area, and a walk-in closet. Also, I had

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a ... to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  -campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... courtyard. Home. I’ve been in quarantine ever since, waiting for the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I ... written something), but I did contribute a lot in that I handled all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008