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  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  ; even the very concept of slam reminded me of a few things that I should remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite ... next four years at MIT. This is a safe place where everyone has a story

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  over the course of the semester. I drew out patterns for a big chicken plushie, derived from a few I found online. I’d spend whatever chunks of ... advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  third paragraph of Stu's entry for details. I have a question. 4 years of high school math are recommended for applying to MIT. I'm going to be a ... year my stepfather got a sabatical which we spent back there, where I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  can. and i can only hope that this will lead to a fulfilling life (and ... and how far i have to go, and then give myself a pat on the back for it ... facilitated this. good thing i’ve now placed myself in a job where i get to

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  Yesterday, a prefrosh friend of mine sent me this Facebook message: I ... person to ask. I'm considering applying to be a blogger, but I'm concerned ... learning communities). I'm hoping to do a spring UROP, too. I'm pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  with another area of your choice, it's called 2A), I live in Next House (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... ? jenny: yep! i tried getting some, but i got blown up by a creeper for the ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  't for me working outside — a few weeks ago, i gathered the freshmen in ... down for a whole month while at home, but i'm currently living with at ... , but i think this summer is a testament to the fact that you can have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  makerspace I just got access to, IDC, where there’s an embroidery machine and a ... , and you can even get funding for it.  I didn’t know I’d crave these ... . But it can be lovely, too.   When I first thought of this blog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  REUSING some of the pictures I took for the viewbook.) A double in East ... each dorm room. I hear it's quite a pain to live in. I took these from ... from freshman year. This is the dorm room which I shared with Kelly '09

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go through exactly one year from now. That's what the blogs are for, right? A ... yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT ... rate for early programs at other highly selective colleges (where the ... by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  moment I'm just going to wake up from a long dream and go back to that ... comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so ... guess I had forgotten that this is what life is normally like. Take, for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  intersected with notions of romance for the first time. I was at a point where I ... The Outside and for a moment, I was certain that she had dug inside my ... , and the more I got to know her (as well as one can hope to know a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the ... The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  perfect fit for MIT and I can't wait to see you as a freshman this fall ... brisk for you! CPW RECAP I would like to give a shout out to all of the ... shelf BBQ. (Don't think I didn't see the folks from the Dirty, Dirty - a.k.a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... stage where I feel like my bottleneck as a programmer is not writing code ... I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  question." Actually I love fast food, but eating it for every meal over a ... ... finally! ------------------------ Shikhar wrote: "I am a bit confused regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  have received a lot of entries from y'all (during the time when I visited ... a food picture) Please include: where you took the picture. (aka ... ) where you're from! anything interesting you would like to say about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  .02 (Macroeconomics), two candidates for a fifth class, were not truly feasible. But, I ... bit basic for a civil engineering senior (as I was forewarned), the ... Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011