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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  particular because I was incredibly homesick. It’s not that I struggled to make ... , Joel G. ‘18, Alexa J. '20, and Kevin S. '19. I think one of the things ... it’s drowning in work, needing a calculator for an exam in the next 10

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  overflowed its buffer in memory. But without further ado or apologies, let’s ... me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... . It’s going to be difficult to put this in perspective, so bear with me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  quarter, I took Women’s Weightlifting. Which was awesome. Before starting ... , it’s really satisfying noticing that I can lift more weight now than I ... weight machines, plus a lot of the dorms have their own weight rooms. It’s

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  high school was just pretty hard. I had 6 or 7 B’s on my transcript ... school taught me how to fail. All those B’s (okay, B’s are really not that ... fact, I know a transfer student at MIT who did exactly that, and now he’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... , although I wouldn’t recommend this strategy on exams. Anyways, let’s move on ... platform, which is MIT’s online learning environment, built on edX. Many

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... students, sometimes it’s “I Have Truly Found Paradise.” Sometimes, it’s “I ... January. It’s terrifying, yes, but I know that by Thanksgiving I will know

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  ). Section leaders are the three students in their second year of GEL ("GEL 2's ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  the next bus stop. “There’s our bus.” “You’re kidding me.” “Nope.” It ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the ... home my bother achieved every child’s greatest fantasy. After our second

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... ; It's November 1. MIT Early Action applicants are wondering, what's next? And Regular Action applicants may be now starting their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously ... of liking it. It’s like dress up. Only… with… your life. And this is ... Developing Countries,” which is incredible. I’m currently part of a team that’s

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  . The initial discovery of the science behind the gecko’s stickiness ... happened to come across the Nature paper on a friend’s desk. He decided to ... gecko’s foot using a strong, water-resistant, flexible, and biodegradable

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite ... friend’s at (and soon to be at) MIT who I already miss. Since this ... ’s head injury I went to the CSAIL presentation, 6.02 class, and EECS

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... ! By this time my standards were pretty high. Let’s face it, I’d gotten a ... table my name and he produced . . . a folder. Yay. Here’s what I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  even how to write the Greek letters that filled the board. Let’s say ... , too. It’s a very collaborative environment with seemingly endless ... University, and if it’s not a good fit, those four years are going to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  ) with a 3.5 gpa (including several B's in math/science), (b) without ... . ------------------------------------- Mihaela wrote: "How bounding is one's choice about the department ... Engineering in one's application and decide to go to School of Management

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox ... House ideas didn’t pan out, but Hassan’s sophomore summer, he interned at ... primarily Uber’s driverless car initiative. He was supposed to go to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  Janet, I’m responding to you from Toronto. That’s right — you’ll be relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year’s misfortune. That’s a story that ends in two crutches, a sprained ankle, and a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  yearbooks from the 80’s in the school library. I miss wearing crewneck sweatshirts in the parking lot covered in dead leaves. I still have them but it’s ... playing fortnite–I miss fortnite so much. I’m sorry, I know it’s lame, but I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... my undergrad. Talking to master’s students at MIT helped solidify that ... funded study, and master’s programs in the UK are only 1 year, freeing up a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  honey[/caption] Here’s my deferral story. It's pretty angsty. I was an ... right now. It’s funny, around that time my English class was reading ... going insane from guilt. I distinctly remember finding Raskolnikov’s

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021