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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  the first person in their families to go to college, their university ... . Simultaneously, their unique skills allow first gen students to stand out from the ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Awkward Moment A little anecdote.

  

  Now I have a lot more stories where this comes from... Tuesday, I was walking down the Infinite with my advisor where SAVE (Save A Vital Earth) was promoting an energy campaign titled "Do It In The Dark." As part of

  • by Bryan
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... " sticker on it. I continue to yank. 3. Victory! The lock comes off! 4

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  to love them like you wished you had done the first time. You can be ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  ." HHS graduate becomes the first accepted to MIT By Kathy Parks Tuesday ... , Mass., and became the first Hargrave student to receive the honor. “I am ... the Campbell Center in Aldine. G. Ledge grad first from school to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom ... engaged in tutorial (in groups of 4 to 5). An important point is that ... experienced faculty) so that students get an opportunity to engage in active

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I ... . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  to the show as much as i could this time around. Ideating in the first ... Infinite Corridor while jamming to the song Fly As Me by Bruno Mars and ... month of January to prepare for the show, dancing from 6-11 every weekday

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  well. I resorted to normal video for most of the key moments (at least ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  have bangers playing at all times, and there's so much space to dance ... from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and ... changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  hour long, with the first fifty minutes dedicated to asking you questions ... item in the fridge so they know exactly where to look first.  By color ... prioritizing which feature to implement first? How would you go about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  asleep during class. Everything carries an associated cost, and the key to ... advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog ... opportunity cost. Everything you decide to do will keep you from doing something

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  first thing that I want to say is, as you mentioned, is that this was ... areas, I think is the key. Eric Olsen: I got to figure out how to direct ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  -week summer component meant to ease the transition into MIT for incoming freshmen and provide them with all the support they might need to succeed while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  , showing up to a random office building on the first day still a little ... to repeat your actions an infinite number of times. Eternal recurrence ... get to experience the joy of first reading or watching, we enjoy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  to work hard and play hard, and helping out with Terrascope. And ... , but we’re not obligated to make it fit the theme so long as we ... . You’d think it's an insane amount of time to be doing this, but it’s not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  back from the first meeting Facebook held to discuss the issue with ... to not split infinitives or to liberally use the Oxford comma, nothing ... ; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  fulfilling as it once was. The key to escaping this, the card ventures, is to ... feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024