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• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively ... was mainly just that MIT is cold. And drizzly.  Which was then followed by “I have never seen anywhere as crowded as Flour is, and also these

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  since MIT is a freaking hard school that will likely destroy me sometime ... regular day, to a CAMPUS with PEOPLE  e v e r y w h e r e was so much ... environment is new and more than a little daunting, but the fact that its

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of ... is a bit pricey, but it's quite tasty. (And plus, MIT pays for my food ... bring yummy doughnuts and apple cider from a local mill. My name is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  !!] League of Legends - okay this is much more intense than the rest but I ... Codecademy Pro for the rest of the school year DuoLingo - now is a great time ... recommendations!) Start a new podcast Discover new artists + music Learn how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  the Northeast is a major transition, Ceniceros acknowledged, yet she ... which dorm is best to study and about restaurants. I'm a vegetarian, so I ... on a specific career path. Yet she would advise younger students it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... folks that it is much more challenging to live in hardship ... I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  “marrying a woman one day” is the assumption. So, I had to say something ... you sure?” “Is it my fault?” “How could this be true?” These memories ... earth bender. My mom is a water bender."] year.[/annotation] My dad

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  feeling. I don't think I realized how much I relied on writing to feel ... 's exactly how it sounds. It's remote so I have a lot of flexibility in my day ... tennis, I love watching tennis, and it is an absolute privilege to have a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a ... -life crisis but maybe it is because I am getting older!??"]don't have a name for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  we hold, we met the new maker in residence, who is dedicating a lot of ... we didn't write down here, is a great sense of camaraderie and support ... As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you ... : hello, Bexley Desk guy: hi, is this MIT? me: this is a dorm at MIT. guy: can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... seemed like fun. Shooting is a useful skill, no experience was necessary ... discovered is that a combination of hearing protection and iPod headphones

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  wonder: is this who I am? Sometimes an old woman says that life is like a ... , and we got to open a box full of more lives, but this time they went ... suddenly the void is yours to cut through like a block of stone waiting to be

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  attempting to take a class asynchronously is a recipe for disaster. Every ... Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade ... , technically). perhaps, a direct impact of having less coursework is less

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a ... is kind of a funny question, since you've probably never heard of Jim

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  next sing speaker to serve as a monitor during the concert (a monitor is ... ’t say much about the actual concert other than that it went fine and a ... favorite videos is a behind-the-scenes clip about the filming of the lord of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering ... aforementioned finger! Yes,  The truth is, I know so much about 2.009 because I ... ). Which is waaay better than a trophy. It was a great way to head off into

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  is not quite like a placement test because it doesn’t let you skip ... willy-nilly, because it is important to have a firm background in the core ... other side of the argument. If there is a subject you are really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it ... at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009