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  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  mug at the Women’s Dessert Reception, a t-shirt at the Beaver and ... Dorm Life raffle, and a red clip ring. And that’s not even counting ... , folders, and booklets. Haha!! Plunder!! It’s great that MIT actually

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  component, and though it’s only 2 hours a week, it really helps with learning ... . Gossard is actually wonderful about learning people’s names and interacting ... interpreting many primary texts. HST.S12- Seminar in Human Clinical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  , Prof. Kellis was honored as one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators ... family to France and eventually arrived in the U.S. in 1993. Manolis, his ... .” Manolis’s interest in biology, and genetics in particular, also appears to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  i have never been this unprepared for a test what a rude awakening

  

  so today i wake up at 9:30 even though it’s a wednesday, because i ... [annotation note="zesiger center, mit’s athletics area/gym/pool place"]the z ... chili. she looks at her phone and says “oh there’s free cake in the lounge

  • by Suzuko O. '30
  • October 28, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  our club name. But we love the feel of 'mince.' It’s an action that ... one form or another, whether that’s documentaries on world class chefs ... and especially for others. Participating in someone else’s ritual and on

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

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  our Notion page. Here’s the first part of it: Also made a fitting ... . ‘25 was our backup-turned-main driver. Oris S. N. ‘23 is a massive ... that state for 30s in totality, when then I’d snap back to take a photo

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

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

  

  the Splash experience is like. This is a rather long post so here’s ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It’s ... you interested in teaching for Splash? Learn anything What’s Splash? It’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  the person that I was two years ago, the ways she’s changed and grown ... : [annotation note="‘It’ being a book of poems by W. S. Merwin that I’d found in a ... Teen Spirit." We’re driving through a forest and it’s beautiful but the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  Shuli:[annotation note="OK, it’s been a while. Life be like that ... lmfao"]held every year[/annotation]on MIT’s campus, that attracts not only ... haven’t done in a year, but let’s not talk about that"]walking onto Putz

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  .  But let’s go a bit further back, to that Monday, the precipice of the ... , that we find the divine in death’s immediacy—we share our ephemerality ... recitation. There’s actually a detail that I opted to leave out here: I had two

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  . Dear Hank & John and Hank’s TikToks taught me to think more ... better. It’s weird to feel so connected to someone I don’t personally know ... he were an alum — he’s such a perfect embodiment of MIT culture: nerdy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  challenging. In 2024 I developed strength and self reliance. Obviously it’s ... ’horloge, vous répondront, il est l’heure de s’enivrer ; pour ne pas être les ... a lot (2/10) try theoretical research and decide if it’s a fit (eg

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... evaluations). It’s also a really fun video game! … kind of. While it’s not ... . Many of them probably wouldn’t work in real life. But nevertheless, it’s

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  . Gather around children, it’s story time. Let me tell you about this folder ... just throw in all of your loose leaves into a folder right? That’s ... semester’s worth of assignments, notes and paper? Well let me tell you, at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  Hi 2021 Applicants! It’s been two weeks since my first post addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that ... my experience, the best college admissions website. It’s well

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Return to Campus x^n

  

  June? It’s too far. I think thinking about it worries me more than it ... utmost everyday; no kicking the can down the road indefinitely until it’s ... thereof. It’s really a gift to have an inexhaustible library to discover

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 10, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2026!

  

  admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and ... processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like ... touchstone for student culture. We pay you for this work. It’s a pretty good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  hours of the day, it’s flooded with club advertisements and clothing sales ... filled with jugglers and their inquisitive onlookers. it’s getting dark, or ... cambridge’s godforsaken sad clouds. i sit down in a lounge on my floor. i

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  that I started following the team as closely as I do today. It’s no ... dinners with my extended family at Culver’s (if you know you know), the ... that’s a conversation for another time). But whatever it is that connects

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025