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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  number, and people can write you messages and put them in the mailbox ... tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston ... direct result of no fewer than four dorm parties (and, in case you didn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  can only shed so much while you remain in the same place. When you ... -mail if you have questions or want to chat. In the meantime, I probably won ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  's window. I remember thinking that this can't be our last goodbye, but in a ... from when I've last seen her. "Talk to your grandma as much as you can while you're here, okay?" I can read between lines to understand what my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... an hour before German class; we can do whatever you'd like. Me: Let

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ’s eye, in front of which I unfortunately can’t make out my sights, even ... now, not the one you just took, not the ones you’ll take in the future ... what's right in front of us. There are doh! shots on the range, where you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you go, you'll never know what you can accomplish until you push yourself. I also found

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix ... luminaries… which actually took place last week (you can watch it

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ). ??????? So I’ve mostly been asked the question "what are you doing" in a ... , where are you going to college? What are you going to major in? What ... ’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... band every week. As you can see from the weekly schedule, there's a ... another department. If you're in the Boston area, check out the shows

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  you in place so much that not even painful tragedy or joyous news can ... your eyes. It can happen while you're lying in bed, thinking about what ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  with no end in sight. That nagging, hopeful feeling that you’re so close ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... enough questions or talk long enough, anyone can tell you something you’ve never heard of before, or surprise you and excite you in ways you didn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  intelligence in the first two paragraphs but you undermine yourself by saying you ... ? These are the most valuable tools you can acquire because they are the ... they don't graduate. In fact, I can't think of a single one off the top

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  us in the heart the way nothing else can. Another HUGE factor is that ... STEM stuff (cause you can get some pretty cool results while having fun ... , you can see why we are confused. Below, we describe our thought process

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... +. Are you sure we can handle it?” “Yes. We're only emotionally immature ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  ; you basically just connect it to a battery. In these more traditional ... in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren ... .) Let me know if you have any questions about 6.131 or lab classes in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to ... DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast ... and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump ... ’s under renovation right now, so I (Kano) can only tell you what I recall

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024