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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .   Truth is…I am Iron Man.  Well, not really.  Not yet.  But I could ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I am Iron Man. 2. MIT Isn’t all happy days and sprinkles. 3. MIT kids are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  events I'm involved with for this CPW, and which ones I HIGHLY recommend ... upperclassmen and say "I am prefrosh" and then get blasted with free food, swag, and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  went back home just once since I left for college. On the other end, I ... Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating, training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... are the ones I REALLY hope you'll attend (for reasons which will become

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few ... technical background instructing the group of 13 kids. I ended up having a ... bit too old for these kids. “ZHC was a senior at my high school when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  . If you're a prospective student and you're thinking, "Man, I wish I ... process, which is how you all ended up with me.) So I wrote about the summer ... at IS&T, I silently pray that the person on the other end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  an end! Freshman year is almost finished...wow. I'll be back tomorrow (after I'm done with the exam and the two psets I have to do after the exam ... It all ends tonight. Last 8.02 exam. Last 14.01 pset. Last 5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  end of the spectrum, but I don't want to incorrectly label any of them ... efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  , which is wacky, so I'm trying to make sure I have a fun ending 😀. This ... the end, let's just have fun :).  Katie K. '24: I am taking a class ... . I asked some people what they were doing over IAP to show some of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  who was wait listed at my first choice college in high school (but didn't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  before. I'd say the freebie post is the inevitable "sorry guys, I'm super hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters ... Snively would call this the bloggers' freebie post. I would disagree

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to write about while cheering for tonight's MIT mens' basketball game, and I realized that I had written something intelligent about MIT athletics the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  row way on the other end of the room. I want to interject here and say ... Love” by Huey Louis and The News, which begins: I was walking down a one ... man After the song they gave her a rose and the class applauded. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  internship by the end of the year. 11:45PM Thermo lecture ended and I feel a ... HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  was your initial reaction when you got into MIT?" Janet: "Aww man, I ... personal essay?" Janet: "I was an average student in high school, but I think ... to explain in Chinese, haha) 8:02 to end: Yi Jieh: "Berta, I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  . ------------------------------------- 112358132134 wrote: "I attend a university for 3 classes and high school for ... end of jan. I'm an international applicant. So i don't have to ... Test, I won't be able to score equally high in Critical Reasoning and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label ... can add or remove Artboards after the document is created. I also like

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  amongus themselves. (As in "people," I mostly mean Gen Z people.) However ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome Center, which opened last year. I use these two blackboards that have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022