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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning ... describe what you learned sometimes. And that can be sad, and a little disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  far, but carrying those paint cans back down Mass Ave was not a whole ... ! Oh, and just a note: we were further inspired by Sam's blog, where he ... feels like a room. You know, one that people live in.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  x 22 is, I'll tell you it's the dimensions of a half-sheet cake; I ... Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  stuff :-) You may have read elsewhere and on other blogs that there is a ... on Third East. In the lottery, you are assigned a room in which you ... live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  was probably something like a 50% (I’m looking at you 6.046). There ... ; there’s a glow on the pavement, you walk me to the car; and you know I ... be real creative real fast, or else you can watch your grade plummet

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... approaching, one week from Friday. For those of you who were there, I hope you ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  while CPW will probably indeed fill you with a sense of warmth and the knowledge that MIT is the place for you, be sure to give other schools a fair ... can do it at MIT. And you can ask me how! And don't forget - Friday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Fredlund (Sestina) The Earth Is Round for a Reason (or haven't you heard ... to the ground and a deep red blankets your feet. There is no amount of ... which you can't tell there's an intended form, whereas this one it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... you, including your situation as affected by family, school, culture
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  essays; you don’t want to be there when they find out you can’t remember ... use will make you look uneducated and is there anything worse than that ... . Don’t go to office hours; you don’t want the TAs to put a name to a face

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  notice fashion in a way I never did before. I can tell you that in July in ... , let me assure you, it is completely impossible to avoid this at New York ... direction, knowing that although what I heard is just a tiny unsolved mystery

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  Makes (almost) Anything", where you make the machines that you use in ... is a truncated icosahedron, which has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons ... neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won't tell you which co-worker unless he/she tells me I can. :-) But this was ... progression - two emergency vehicles, woot! (I thought of you, Tish.) And second

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  note: You'll save a bunch of time if you remember to check that there are ... of January where students can conduct 'independent activities' before ... that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a ... there, which can lead to why I made this entry. Check out what happened this morning in the comments: If you didn't lol at that then there

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in ... of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a student at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate expansively.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... will not be available for a while. You can note in the Midyear Updates ... accepted during Early Action. The Midyear Report is to be completed by you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  on display. I definitely had a few moments where I briefly thought I ... . While there were a lot of water lily paintings by Monet, I thought this ... 't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  , make sure you have time to decompress. "You" time is never a waste of ... story is that MIT's a challenging place, but you're never alone if you ... . I can't stress how important this is. MIT has many activities that you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... , there is a definite geometric progression which takes place. The larger ... 're interested in film-making, you might take a class in it. Later you might hear

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009