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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... page, and it led us running to the Infinite Corridor where we found a map

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... why squares A and B are the SAME COLOR - I still think it's all a big ... shifts on the ambulance, and long hot showers trying to scrub off that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... , these students had a presence in MIT’s hallways. In the same way that I ... it is[/caption] The reason that Splash teacher recruitment had to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  , beautiful and dangerous at the same time. MIT is like that, too, in a way. And ... - is simply trying to find the right audience. And as far as readership ... journey I am. Applying to MIT is its own kind of journey. And I think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  -shirts, and that’s only counting the ones that I wear on a semi-frequent basis ... -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... downstream. But I had a map in hand, and I was determined to reach the X I had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  from point A to point B, and at least the latter came with a dental plan ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so ... world, to do things with purpose, and I’ll never learn that from doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  people don't always realize is that there are also dorms whose mascot is a ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  gay heart the gay heart is a device for confucious to tell haikus that ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to ... have run a quick game, and then there should’ve been Meet the Bloggers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  America, which is a HASS history class, and there were many papers to write ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... wrote relate somehow to the computer or Internet...Is it a blogger

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... a Thing I think it’s somewhat silly to contend that there are ... me she heard about a daycare in the town next to ours that had job

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  and finish something. And this is that something. Hopefully there will be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little ... a time. And I'm hoping this will help. Writing, that is. Speaking

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... ’m lucky that I had a friend who had a car and wanted to cross-enroll with me

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Programs: The summer is a great time to try new things and explore your ... to start a coding journey. (Note - there are paid courses and projects ... not fit in this blog so at the bottom of this section is a link to a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  to continue learning and studying like nothing is wrong.  There are a ... ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work ... a pass/no record grading system across the board. I have to admit that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a ... . Without a doubt, 6.2600 is the most magical and exciting class I’ve taken at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  the day to day? Did she cry over a silly things that I can’t even ... largest chunk of it, and have been able to re-piece that timeline through a ... the vast, endless and collective journal that is the internet. At the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  that had been shown to me, and I would watch them struggle with the same ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... , and was left feeling so dumb. I had the fortune of living next to a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012