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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I ... the suite lounge, one with a phone playing “Chariots of Fire” on full ... a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive ... Fellowship. Part of the application required that I give the name of my ... I hadn't visited them or anything (with the obvious exception of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the ... of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  they are frosh.  This is called the conservation of frosh.  Since they ... days as a frosh by taking pictures of people building things in the East ... -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  -up of the firehose. But still. Back when I [annotation note="almost two ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... been struggling to find time for it. At the beginning of every semester I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  this a bit more this IAP. I’ve liked the feeling of stretching my body while simultaneously strengthening it. I want to explore the feeling of exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  friend, so housing was resolved. then there was the problem of packing everything we'd need to sustain ourselves for four days. I'm the type of person ... our group! two of them were coming only for the weekend, though, so we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  FPOP, and through Rush, I would meet a good number of the incoming class ... ![/caption]     An Evening with Champions The second week of school, I ... . Organized by Harvard undergraduates, this was the 48th rendition of the show

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  critical facet of the Indian-American experience. In one scene, where Devi is ... last few paragraphs of the essay. Disclaimer: I didn't really care about the Common App, so I kind of...spliced up some ideas from my MIT essays

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  cold bottle of media is advised. Other notes: “This is probably the best ... actually has really small amounts of heavy water! The cells I babysit also ... taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... seminars on Special Relativity, Gyroscopes, and the Physics of Flight ... one of the Global Teaching Labs anyway. Sure, teaching is a lot of work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up-the ... veggie dishes most. Here’s a tumblr post containing many of the things I ... make jam?" and my friend Kevin P. '18 said, "of all the people I know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . Favorite things about Boston: The local music scene, the youthful feel of the ... little mermaid was HOT. But in the spirit of MIT, I'll go with Speed Racer ... /MIT: Two things - first, put yourself - your true self - into all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  of the world (though it may feel like it tomorrow). I'd like you to ... amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning ... point. I admire your tenacity and your resilience through classes and the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  , MIT Class of '92, is running the show. I haven't met him, but he's a ... of MIT's famous classrooms housed underneath the Great Dome. I stopped ... , they had demos set up. The lines for every one of them were so long

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I’ve concluded from the past three years of college life: People are not as cool ... about - academics, career, finances, etc.- so much so that the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  Red Hot Chili Peppers, despite the title of this entry): Of Montreal and ... ! What did YOU do when you got into MIT? Example: I'm Sandy, one of Jess's favorite people ever, and I called Jess the minute I found out I got into MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... Extraordinaire 7) Matt 8) Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment (And I'm taking the ... if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... !). Eventually, the portal will include all kinds of cool things like CPW ... . Plan what to do with the Official Copy of the Admissions Letter that will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009