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• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students that is passionate about STEM and as passionate about the outside world ... collaboration and giving back to the world that excites me to work on this campus

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  opened up the application the night before it was due and hacked out a few ... everything was planned. This brings us to the present and why I've waited this ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that the MIT buildings are truly random, and that this place is special and ... ’s like to love science and math, be curious about the world, and remain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... transfer the proteins to a nitrocellulose membrane (which binds proteins and ... high school and MIT. 3. (A question from a while back that I forgot to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  , and an environment that you have little to no idea about. During the ... , I rung the doorbell to the house, and waited for a response. For ten ... ) to the caretaker, and proceeded downstairs. After gesturing a lot (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  consuming large amounts of junk food. Well, that was the plan, and we did in ... of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising ... !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  by the COVID-19 pandemic. We know that there are ongoing and rolling ... promise we are working through everything and there is no need for you to ... ! Do you provide a fee waiver for the CSS Profile? MIT is not able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  around again and made the long trek from Simmons to campus. There, a ... to the counter and checked them onto the flight. I'm not a very ... while the pilot came over the intercom to tell us there was a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... online are a good place to start. And there are plenty of research ... formula to one application - MIT is looking for more than that. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  went to the same high school as we did and who Charlotte knows through ... accepted that we were not getting tickets, and decided to just ask the ticket ... blog last week, and really wanted to see the show! That made us very

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  documentary about yourself is that you are the narrator and you get to decide ... assignment. The third assignment was to create a 5-7 minute documentary that ... something to fill that space, finding Tumblr and using One Direction as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  classes, but I know already that it's going to be a rough semester. In the ... , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  for me. Having a desk is a game-changer, though—there's so much space to ... bed, and cultivate a ~vibe~ that's uniquely my own. It's great! The ... 10 am to 4 pm. Since everyone in the house has classes and work, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is ... applied to college, all I knew is that I was going to college, and hopefully ... incredibly happy. I still had to visit and make sure that it was the right

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  us do multiple art styles in the same video. and we also liked the idea of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... -annoyed response to the prompt, though, I realized that I was being a bit dramatic ... important to me than my studies. Is that enough to make an identity? A pile of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  'd like to think that MIT is one of the best in the world, there will always ... the U.S. that is need blind and full need for all of our undergraduate ... 's budget is notably the most lenient and able to help applying students, and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it ... that because this is a personal instinct and not one that is in any way ... about, wouldn't that be a much better (and productive) use of the time

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  picking it up again but a part of me is afraid that i've lost the ability to ... . you know that feeling when one side of your nose is clogged and the ... now. i go to bed at like, 3 or 4 and wake up at 12, which is still a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  book and annotate it because there is so much I can learn to grow as a ... there was a general arc and story in the way the poems were presented and ... tackled. I think it’s a nice book to read and relax while sitting by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020