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  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt ... A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  back in time, I would high five myself, then say "don't wear your big ... , shimmying through little alleyways I would never have thought to enter in ... primer on how to pray…Lucy said we pray in our heart, so I did.” “After

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  in on 6.006 I dropped 6.006 to Listener mid semester but continued ... learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class ... House']4W[/annotation] people. I got like two tossups in the entire

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At ... Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... get as many piercings as I wanted once I went to college. All I would

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... wasn't entirely sure about how i would enjoy living there. MacGregor has ... 's mattress from her room in EC, but when i saw how decrepit it was, i decided

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... how to stab anyone, and I wonder what richness that knowledge would add ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in ... comfortable for me? (This means I spend most of my time in my room.) Why would I ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can't begin to tell you how that feels, after all this time. Maybe I'll have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... would've churned this out in no time, but writing The Words turned out to ... actually a lot of fun since, for one, I was interested in my thesis, and also

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... had been totally fine. But I couldn’t help but worry. Perhaps in my mind ... can give. Here we are, in this universe where I chose MIT. I love MIT in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... was scheduled to arrive Monday, and while I knew I would miss my ... productive all semester -- and perhaps ever. How na√Øve. I was able to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Sorry, I will try and write more regularly in ... coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... think it's the oddest thing. Some of my friends in materials and I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  b.s. or exercises in covering your tracks after messing up. But then I could see, in my own projects and in my classmates’, how the constraints ... first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a ... . For example, I would probably reject anyone who asked me out if they ... most everything I do. Taking an example from when I was younger, in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake ... [/annotation] and also confused about how it would work logistically. Memes ensued ... excited for my friends, but didn't think I would personally get one. Then, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... the past few days, I've been wondering about what I would blog about today, asking myself what I would have wanted to hear last year. I'm not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... finals. As a lifelong strong-test-taker, I thought I would prefer final ... 13) I am in Seattle, in my parents' house, and more specifically in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020