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• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... paragraph.  Because every time I step into 35-307, I'm reminded of how lucky I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  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 / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... Disorder” (or “I see everything”) I was tar-trap black in love with you. I ... sneakers snap and no umbrella or plastic bag! How ever would you go back to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• 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 / Academics & Research

  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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... unfriendly fluorescent lights together. In the interest of full disclosure: I never attended Middletown High School North. I would have- I attended its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• 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 / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... thought we would, so I have to be careful this year to ensure that we don ... , depending on how busy things get. At this point, I have no idea, but my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• 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 / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  classes in the physics curriculum. I’m here to tell you why this class is ... love electromagnets”[/annotation] has three words in it. ‘I’ has one ... "]Sean[/annotation] mispelled every word in that sentence, and I crack up every time I see this

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• 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 / 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 / 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