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  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  school was that place where the real learning happened, where the decisions you made determined your life, and where school shootings happened ... a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  requirements every week. The perks of working here are pretty great. I get a free ... has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  from last year and made [annotation note = "You know who you are <3"]a ... help my kiddos (aka freshmen who are probably on average like six months ... semesters went. This was fun because all of my advisees are really great! (<

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those ... exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... asked me "would you like to be considered for a spot, or have you made a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  pictures. Here are some headlines:   Thomas DeFrantz and the Dancing ... dance." Cynthia O' '16 and I swooned in our seats and ate free shish ... in the back of the room who asked good questions. There are so many new

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance ... Fast Food Cooking for yourself (*gasp*) Dumpsters, free food mailing ... a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  : [email protected]... Well, that's what these blogs are for- to ... a link on the old admissions page where you could email current ... makes me feel important. Here goes: There are only four "cat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  november 29th, 2022 10am: you attend nano lecture but are unable to ... and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you ... it took a year you’ve now reached a point where you like (or at least

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the ... are deathly contagious. As soon as someone sarts stopping swyllables ... . Everyone seems to know everyone and strangers at parties are never more than

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  -war rally and some free peacenik bumper stickers. Exactly a week later, they ... back to Kresge Auditorium where the Festival Jazz Ensemble was performing ... Kresge's lobby where we talked about jazz for a bit. We sat together almost

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  matter. There are very commonly recurring schedule archetypes that you can ... enough room for extracurriculars and exploration. There are 8 total ... are juggling between n>1 major choices, consider adding a discovery

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  symbols on the tabs disappear and you have no idea where you are clicking ... 't even as excitingly labyrinthine as I thought it would be. There are ... are here" symbols. At least there are cool pipes on the ceiling. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  finals are done and not during the actual term, but that's just the way it ... auditorium...and, well, you see where it's going. Now it's 6:55, and I ... ) but are quickly hushed and shamed by the rest of the audience, who are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  home. There are things I miss about real home too. Like my high school ... . Everywhere I turn my head, I see vibrant signs of life. People are painting glow-in-the-dark murals on blacklit walls. People are spinning poi lit on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  : Where do I go from here? And frankly, I don't know. Talking to my ex made ... I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... -so-characteristic Anaheim buildings made me very desperately just want to go back to campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Many of these student are from small towns or areas where few students go ... students we admit are like. Who are they? What are they interested in? What ... nice insight into the lives of some of our incoming freshmen. Here are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  to an organized, clutter-free space is a huge boost to your mood ... how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my ... around the room and share what we are currently working on, what our ideas

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  d'etres. (Oh god, don't know French, don't know where to add the ... high school, and I had lead roles in five of them. I made all-state choir ... performing arts. I auditioned for (and made) two of MIT's excellent a capella

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  guilt free. Other times, it has an opposite effect where you just kinda go ... use of PNR in various ways, where you'll often hear phrases like "It ... Christopher Nolan movie ever, but knowing how volatile my friends are when it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  section. Away we go! Who are you? Sigh. It’s only been a year since I ... of your life - these are all meant to be temporally-finite experiences. In fact, I made a really conscious effort when I returned to MIT last

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014