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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a ... this was not one of those mornings. This was a curious morning indeed. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Living to Create And why I am the things I make.

  

  putting them together in a way that I love, and then giving them to the ... These past two years, I’ve unfortunately made a grave and dire ... now, anytime I find myself editing something or sketching the idea for a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... , but it worked. I learned a lot and gained a lot of confidence in myself ... fields that I'm really passionate in. But, I have a lurking feeling that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  I have tests in all my classes in the next few days so I thought it was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... 's the plan. Of course, it's been 2 years since I was a prospective student

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch ... like a cool place and all but we're *lost*! This was before I ever had a ... colleges in the Northeast over three days. At the time, I was fairly

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to write up a quick blog entry - so it has been quite an exciting time. I ... to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple ... resistance in celebrating a battle recently won over our pancake foes. What ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year ... wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  -protein interactions in neurons, and I'll be starting a PhD program in cell biology at Harvard in September. (Like any good MIT student, I still get a little ... graduate school applications. I talk about my research in a bunch of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The ... culmination of these units created a full picture of what made me who I am. So ... measurement I found was music. But music lengths were too subjective; a song by

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What ... individual personalities. Personally, I get excited being in a conversation ... chime in with the classic “What’s a cannoli?” question and have them try

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical ... technology development. It turned out to be a job description for what I ... technique in Venice, Italy after I graduated and then entered a business plan

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  , I hope you also continue to check out Mitra's blog, which gives a ... Kravitz For all you anime fans, a Boston Globe article about the Anime Club ... nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  makes you a geek in HS, it'll make you a superstar at MIT.   ... international students.   As you can see by the photos, this was a grueling process. I could go through it step by step with you, but Ben's already

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  wrote a reflection about their time in Spain. As I was writing my ... spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... study abroad opportunities as I can! The Plaza de España in Sevilla This

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  away from home. And here's the video I made, with iMovie, at age 22 in a ... placed in what we called the "forced-triple" -- a cubicle designed for two ... junior high (in ~2010) boys who came to a competition I was staffing, would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... that's a skill that I'd like to develop this semester, both in classes ... in recitation, and I finally feel like this is a Course 6 class that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  interest in music, and 2.674, which is a nanotechnology lab. Oh, and I'm in ... been sleepless nights and what I would imagine has been a mind ... . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  fireside chat, I asked him what advice he has for MIT students in my position ... interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016