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  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I just had was to write something along these lines and send it to the CEO ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  post was made to welcome the class of 2024 to campus and mark their first ... dilemma involved figuring out which aspect to illustrate and how. Our first ... September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  It's been a while. I meant to post sooner but I got sidetracked, and then I got sick, and here we are. I had an impulse to post something I've been meaning to write about poetry. I'm taking the 21W.771 Advanced

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

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you ... doting quite flattering, to be honest, and it's been very sweet to see how many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... -- you may not be surprised to hear -- that being an MIT student gives you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... me! Mind you, this was the very first problem set. About a month and half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... trying to contact the Admissions office regarding your application, and you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  figure out a way to dispense helmets reliably and one at a time. The first ... so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... me, has been finding the time to try and pset all that needs to be ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... being able to write down "[email protected]." It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  magic possible. First I need to thank the Minority Ambassadors - Ms ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a

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

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you ... was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  hardness tests to confirm my results. Results and Discussion First, I tested ... “measure” to find out, I encountered my first problem – no indentation was ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to climate change, from plate tectonics to exoplanets. Our department is housed ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  related to technology, who all descend on Las Vegas the first week of every ... externing. I decided to eat my cake and have it too, so I missed the first ... January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  current world champion who is in the first video above, taught us how to ... that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... down to 14E-304: a cozy little seminar room with a central table and ... two fields can come together to construct human history. Even more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... Seattle because I wanted to try something new. I'd heard from many people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... all the things I love. I will also be back at MGH soon to volunteer so it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012