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• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... accelerate the passing of time? i am in a headspace where i cannot fathom why ... shorter than the previous one, unless i pull as hard as i can to stretch it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  previous years, I have conducted Central Meetings in Providence, St. Louis ... Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii ... 've sent, or otherwise affirmed your interest in MIT, you will receive an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  grows as I bounce off ideas and memories. In this initial phase, I can ... Poetry Workshop class this semester, where each week you come in with a ... somewhat crowding the stage. In highschool actually, the professors I liked

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  . Said illusion is currently failing to function. Case in point: Where did my weekend go?! Follow-up case in point: Where does every weekend go?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... much top secret). - You can't live in your fraternity during your ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  slight rivalry between Harvard and MIT. Whenever I'm talking to prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... deep down they really just want to study alone in their rooms and go on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  for two reasons; 1. I can sit in the grass and work and 2. I can get ... in Eataly, where I tried some fancy chocolate nuggets that were amazing ... Starbucks after the cash registers on the second floor, where I can overlook

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... going to the darkroom because it’s “therapeutic”. I can’t exactly disagree

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  in fall 2022. god, I can't wait.   ... since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we were a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  in a place where to a degree the world comes to you and you can meet a ... . Having never touched a pipette, today I work in a lab where we're trying to ... So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... him leaving Roanoke in the fall. "I'm very very proud but very sad that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  positions where I feel like I can have a direct impact on humanity.   ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a peace sign, but, and I quote, "as an otaku, that can only be 'V for

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  myself useful in ways that I can be for people who are struggling. 5 ... , I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television, sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I'm too far gone in that direction to turn back. Of course, then I had to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would ... first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... the Boston city limits. In a town where there are so many college ... N4 O2 (sorry, I can't get subscripts to work) Well, I'm off to

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  dynamics, the phrasings, etc., in the way that I can pick sentences apart and ... in leadership positions throughout the years, I can identify things ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024