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  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... !” speech, because I’d spend forever and a half gushing about how cool and ... and trying something new. I would consider myself practiced at about

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  ...it sounded so different from how it did on Youtube. I still managed to come in ... would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  outside, staring in unbroken awe at the air. I don’t know how long it took ... how certain I was that I would dive head-on into the waiting classes and ... --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... for a conference I’m presenting at in May. I had two other projects that ... dynamic language engineering class, and I would have been a stressed wreck

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  series of TableTop and I fell in love. Every week Wil Wheaton would gather ... construct an argument, with sources, about what would have happened. Here are a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  -sized stuffed panther doll in the middle. To this day, I have no idea what was up ... activity, too, and I'm really looking forward to how people respond to it ... the half hour, in room 32-144. I don’t want to give anything away

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought ... I did in middle school. I loved lego robotics, and my mom can testify that I would stay after school literally every single day to build and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... place, despite the heat. I really like how much nature is accessible there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we ... songs in the traditional language of Senegal, such as [translated] "I went

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... Conservation of Sleep, I would probably do my research there. A given glance ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  share this so I guess I'll stick it in here—Joey Googled ARIEL because ... phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  says that now she doesn't have to buy it. See? April gives me food, I let her read my books. We have a symbiotic relationship.) In other news, I ... .60, 8.01 open-notes: everything in course 10, 7.06 Mitra said: "I can say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  decisions going to be online in December? I'm trying to figure out how heavy ... course material are taken in jan... which would be after i've sent in my ... department here in India. so they arrange make up test in october 28th but i

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I ... that is no longer accessible. When I think of this place in space and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  on how far they live from a "high quality" hospital. And I am studying ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and again in 1992 as a Professor. In both cases I came here because it was so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  . Unfortunately, this was the best picture I took of him: The curly thing in the ... Mary" and "YMCA"--well, CCR are kind of rooted in American folk rock, I ... developed the technology to control how they explode--maybe you could major in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005