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  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  students. these days, I think that online advice is often useful as a ... algebra, and as it turns out a lot of higher level math, is not like this ... -introductory classes. (a note here is that mit doesn’t restrict enrollment for most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... is hot. What you call stupidity, I call valuing a posteriori knowledge ... admissions officers and student bloggers alike, is "How can I get into MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... a car is nice. But buying a car off of Craiglist is always dicey, and ... clean; Gilles is back in Switzerland, and I'm driving around a peppy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  set of Avatar, if it had a set, that is. Once we returned to camp and ... by how a fairly small puddle can suck all the heat out of your body ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... :D"]IAP[/annotation]! You might wonder, how much can you really ... ="attachment_111180" align="aligncenter" width="768"] here is a little bit more about me

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  background about the Langer Lab? A: Langer Lab is huge; most of building E23 ... whenever I want. I really love Boston and how MIT is located literally across ... advice for prefrosh? A: 1) Do not try to do too much academics at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I ... was a thing and hence paid zero attention to dorms. This is a bad idea ... ? Like pudding? How about mega puddings? What about a GIGA pudding? Come to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  not becoming a doctor. I regret how much time I spent feeling abjectly ... on me. In the end, a biology major likely wouldn’t have changed much in ... admitted I loved. All of this is a dangerous rabbit hole. For most of my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  're all sophomores. The other half is from pretty much everywhere, which I ... alone in MIT again." We talk for a while about how we ended up living in ... , one of which is taking a gap year. We all know each other from Floor Pi

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  sororities with horror movies, so it's nice to see them in a different, MUCH ... illustrious Dieffenbachia Camille, which is a name I might have just googled a ... much. But with this one, it turned out to be a good laugh after a long

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to solve mine. This blog is supposed to have a question on it, so I'll make this one easy. How many entries to date? Please do not post the answer

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... .  However, a blog is not required. Some of our best bloggers had never ... current blog, please send a link to it. If your blog is locked

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  probably at least dimly aware that I'm a cheerleader, I never write anything about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because ... 's captains, if we could cheer for a little while. How could we say no?) After

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  usually travel on a daily basis, I want to cover as much as I can. I want to ... a place to me over the past semester/several months: even though it is ... happiness that I've been waiting to feel for a very long time." MIT is no

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems ... the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry ... . (This is mainly due to how awesome and entertaining these poems are.) For

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... application season is a stressful and busy time for applicants and that ... the deadlines, there is always a small rush of requests right before (or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Clayton would have cared that much, but as it happens, I'll need a nice ... dress shoes) with a skirt? Any birthday party, of course, is a great ... Walcott Lounge, one of the two lounges on hall, which is normally a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  this is how your language is perceived: a string of nonsense.  You are ... ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few ... by a musician is that the poems turn out quite pretty. The cool thing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  a test is harder -> instructor lowers grade cutoffs ... ” sounded to me and how much I loved Physics 1 / Mechanics, astrophysics might ... , and how Prof. Ed used its two readings (Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025