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• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student ... support will allow a lot more of the stores to stay open. Harvard

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5 ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... team to learn “Wargaming,” which is like a more complex game of Risk but ... scholarship and just want to give the program a try, you can do so with no

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it feels like to go to MIT. The blogs are not supposed to be a soapbox from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build ... use a commercially available toy to make a flying version of the speeder

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  privacy - sites like Facebook are designed to be a community, a playground, etc for students - not designed to be a spying tool for Big Brother. To ... when students get to know us a bit and understand that their applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  have to cure cancer and save a child from a burning orphanage?"). Anyway, the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to ... dream of becoming a rocket scientist. "That is my dream -- to become a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... for me when it comes to watching a game is listening to the pundits ... ’s what I want them to do. But I’m home and after a month and a half, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans ... may not have much 'deeper meaning', it is still a way to express your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... you are? Is it a balance?  How do I apply to grad school? How do I ... go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... FSAE instead. But then Adelaide '09 brought me back to earth. She's a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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  -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to ... , then… 2 days in Los Angeles, then spend a day driving up to… Yosemite for a day, then drive over to… San Franciscoto end our trip

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... something as you are, and now they all have a chance to follow those passions

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT ... of this post. Since coming to cambridge I've had a wide array of ... to the halting problem. You'll spend hours working on a problem only to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... language lab, meeting with a fellow EC resident and software developer to put

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  about it. This itself was like finding yourself at a meadow, and having to ... gravity, a first principle to found my life upon. I’m not sure when it ... belongings I hauled to campus my first year of college was a cleaver carefully

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  , craving to do something, having nothing satisfying. A dullness in the in ... ’m doing, spend my days like this. This is a truth I’ve come to accept. This ... issue is that I’m not ballsy enough to drop out and pursue a passion or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to ... the Midway slightly influenced my decision.) To my surprise, I got a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016