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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  together. Alan: Kevin’s path was pretty complete, and we saw limited reason ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore ... Kevin’s plan, adding SL3, and talking about the different parts. There

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... lab under the cognitive science department, even though the project’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday ... ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  that become your closest friends. This is life- it’s messy, unexpected ... . Life isn’t always black or white. It’s some murky combination of many ... ’ve felt restless thinking about one question: “What’s next?” When you’re a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... single individual’s ability to succeed – and students are unable to believe ... blue coins, and knelt down next to the student. “Okay,” I said. “Let’s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people, that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... with windows and ice cream cones). People have mixed feelings about MIT’s ... , and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  representative of Tetazoo and Blacker’s love for each other. [caption id ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges ... drawn weeping in the background. The Harvard mascot’s facial features bear

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Office was formally created in 1929, led by the Institute’s first ... Campus Preview Weekend brochures from the 90s, stacks of old MIT Admissions ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... person isn’t nearly representative of “what you did in high school,” so it’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... . ‘16 Genome-based legged robot simulation for 6.S079. Robots are Klann ... ) and her boyfriend Alex and we yelled to early 2000s Avril Lavigne in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... with Pass/No Record, it may very well seem like everyone’s hanging out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it’s ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can ... received, my first question was always “why”. But that’s already been talked

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... entirely), and it’s not about Ethiopia, and it is not about my family, or ... spring protections. A spring protection is made where there’s a source of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  visualizing rotations of two- and three-dimensional shapes in one’s mind, and ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of ... objective science. And statistically speaking, he’s right. It is true that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s ... was AWESOME. do recommend. there‘s also a short video series on the ... what has been. It‘s complicated. But, this blog is not about that

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024