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• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  's talk about them. First there's 18.01 (Calc I), and I have nothing interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  .13, then I'd have to guess that I lacked an amygdala. The first exam ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  couldn't believe it at first to be honest. As an added bonus too, I was ... to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our first meeting, he helped me pick which classes to register for. We ... physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... . Classic Big Bang theory, this professor likes to say, “says nothing about what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  , so we got to present a poster! Considering that this was my first ... Kresge Auditorium. It was my first introduction to the world of ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... Alan sent out invites to join a summer poetry group — summertry, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  useful to the lab -- the first truly useful code I've written. I am so ... bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW ... break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  'll be your first MIT math class but you have to start somewhere. And trust ... , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... place to alleviate some of the pressure on first-semester freshmen. The ... myself to go to class. I was so upset by my first exam grade that I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  one I was most nervous for. I went to the first event, Meet MCG, where I ... One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  work are committed, first and foremost, to helping young people reach their aspirations. Even though the challenges faced vary from role to role and institution to institution, some common themes emerged. While

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church. The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  because the first officer didn't show up. Oh well... back to campus as soon ... back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and ... to play today? You guessed it... Admissions: You Make The Call. So you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this ... begin next Wednesday.  The Red Sox are in first place.  And MIT Admissions recruitment travel season has begun, with our first meeting tonight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer ... answer is? Hehe. - - - Edit: okay, first person to provide an answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  . Tuesday: The other real reason why I came to London - The first ever Global ... , to fashion designers, to FIRST's Dean Kamen. Quick highlights: When ... blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... spontaneously decided to get a second helix piercing, just below the first one ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020