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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  have terrific gender diversity for a science and engineering school. The ... really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... of my important due dates for projects next week (the second full week

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... looked up at my mom, who was still reaching for some higher-up fruit, her ... lectured on the immorality of thievery. She studied me for a little while

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  significantly more reasonable-looking jacket. We take refuge from the wind in a ... way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light ... (these are after all new faces in a place I was setting foot into for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... appealing. It's like...watching Breaking Bad for the first time (which ... a look! Since fall classes always begin on the Wednesday after

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on ... Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  . The first and last place we looked for costumes was my closet.   ... had worn those heels and told themselves that they looked beautiful, the ... wear a bright green corset that I’d worn as the Joker for Halloween. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  opted for a coach seat—so I’ll be sleeping upright for the next three days ... a wonderful essay about the color blue: “For many years, I have been ... color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for ... behind for other residents. this was the first sticker i put on my laptop ... session. even though i ended up not applying for the program, i'm a weeb and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  was that we found out what the final for the class is: DO ANYTHING and ... ’s ART SHOW in the Student Center Wiesner Gallery. For context, the Weisner ... work. Our friend got a spot for the month of November and tonight was the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  training coordinator for Medlinks for the upcoming year! I am so excited to ... be nice to get a break from the institute for a little while. I Wrote ... can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into ... midterm and ending with the last one, midterm season looks like this: It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  docked the commvee for some petrol while the kids fetch a cuppa and some ... say upon our arrival the seafaring natives looked at us a tad queerly ... : the people of Pi, and the people of Tau.     For many

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  of the protocols so many times that I don't have to look at my notebook ... , should I just sign up for one for the lottery, or do all three? The usual ... not the same. And thanks again to all of you for your congratulations. :)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for ... exaggeration of otherwise satisfactory results. I wasn't prepared for the amount ... it wasn’t for the incredibly generous curve. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas ... 't. 10:32 pm: I once tread water for ten minutes as part of the MIT swim ... , vastness expanding past the yardsticks of comprehension. I slept for three

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8 ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track ... know the adults that work here, so it's wierd for me to do it. But there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... waited, and waited, and, wai-oh look! the deadline to contact interviewers ... , a storm hit Maine. Knocking out the power for several days! I had

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly ... behind the scenes to open applications and plan for the Fall 2025 STARS ... was a fun way for us to break the ice and learn a little about each

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025