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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  , here's one of the things I missed on campus: Fierce Forever is MIT ... expected attendance of 1,200, Fierce Forever is the largest student drag show in the country. The past five editions of Fierce have earned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the ... one of the leafier subsets of the city. From the balcony of my room on the tenth floor I have a majestic view of the Bangalore bungalows

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you ... many members of the Class of 2020 who are all struggling with the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  pulse. I'm used to the relaxed and sometimes languid feel of Texas, and ... lack of a better term... sketch looking :S Taking the underground transit ... minority dinner and got to meet a bunch of interesting new people! The food

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... learn about the cool new ideas that are changing the world. Of course, it ... doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... the hallway, turning around, and seeing people quiet down instead of ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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