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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  Eyes." Our first writing assignments were to write story beginnings, to ... people go on to write their ideas out. The minority that does go to the ... writing takes time and time is something which you give to MIT for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  again," she said. Cristen just opened her first bank account. She wants to ... 'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... them to keep it down. On others, Joey took a trip to the emergency room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  's major newspaper. Figuring ways to go faster with the flow By Phil Mc ... clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America's leading bicycle manufacturers. Now the wind tunnel specialist plans to use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  spent his time in prison practicing spirituality and magic. when i first ... our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to keep your mind as single-pointedly focused on whatever you're trying to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  L mentors, they were able to solve an edX issue on the very first day of the ... Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the ... around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  as you begin to make the leap into the first year of the rest of your ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... , which is even later than MIT - Friday, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - and so while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make ... awesome that MIT allows you to do whatever you like to your room. I really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  Italian is offered, and only over IAP.) The very first humanities course I took here my first semester was 21F.716, Introduction to Contemporary ... ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my ... 've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that ... energy and passion. Favorite movies: To Kill A Mockingbird, American Beauty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  trips to do some "real" climbing, and I hopped on the first one I could ... top of that first pitch leads to this pleasantly wide (though it doesn ...   While it's easy to think and talk about the incredible

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  : embroidery. It is my first actual adult hobby. Part of me is embarrassed to say ... and how to raise better children. In other academic news: for the first ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• 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.

  

  in the first round. Of these, about 10,000 were invited to compete in ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... accepted into all nine schools he applied to including Stanford, Harvard

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

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  I applied to MIT three years ago (shudders). I was originally ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... . (We'll circle back to this thread eventually...) Anyhow, here are (most

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  my first real calls last night (Monday). I always like talking to ... dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... , because to be honest, I’d been feeling weird about UROPing at all. I didn

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  freshman year. Hard to believe that first one was 3 years ago. Hope you ... something fun to do — go through (approximately) the same week every year that ... commentary about the things that I am (or was) up to. Without further ado

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021