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  I Remember…

  

  It is difficult for me to accept that the MIT Blogs are turning 10 ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  reading led to this: (I call this one Shoot Buttons, I Knew I Should Have Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I've been listening to this summer, but I quickly realized (as the list

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  you, and you’ll laugh about something dumb together, and you’ll start to ... better. Hi, I’m Michelle, and it’s super nice to meet you! If you didn ... 100% okay. Since I’ve gotten to this crazy Institvte, I’ve learned to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even ... . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... only wanted to do a partial computer science degree, meshing it alongside

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  norm at mit, with people working together to learn rather than be better ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  is to bring together "language partners": people who have complimentary ... wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college. After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  born we curled up next to their aquarium and watched them together, and ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  discuss philosophy and values and the the human condition together. We also ... trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a play] together.  But let's be real. I had no idea what I signed up for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  --they gave an ipad to a monkey to see how well it could play games. And then ... equipment we have, so if it breaks it needs to be repairable with Home Depot ... interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can't find information on it there. This is a program I'd like to write about ... HST, and they seem to think it's great. As for your second question, yes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very ... been rather silly to create a blog that no one would read. Nonetheless, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  for a couple of the showings but we got to watch it together on opening ... each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study.  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  understand. What I pieced together from the conversations were that I needed to ... map them together and see how they linked to each other. Then I started ... devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  yet here I am, struggling to remember just exactly where I was 2 years ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow. The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  trying to debate about housing or even recommend to you what you should do. I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... 's not fair to categorize fraternal life into one big stereotype, whatever

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017