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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a pharmaceutical company in Boston (a lot of people take a year or two off between

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people ... , class of 2011. Both of us are members of Sigma Kappa sorority and that

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  detect front and back foot taps with a fair degree of accuracy.  But you ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... all kinds of snacks and critically analyze the goods like the food

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  the Charles River, Next House offers stunning views of the riverfront ... beautiful courtyard over which many of the rooms look. Next House offers a ... I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP ... 's gap longer than usual. Oops! As part of 21W.765 Interactive Narrative ... . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  + snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... applicants who love MIT and show high passion, how does MIT choose? Of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  each universe we included some sort of a mood board, so here's the one ... lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... cuz we really like the animation style and multiple universes would let

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  of art, the transparent front of the ICA offered a panorama of the ... before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that ... %, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  about this time during my senior year of high school and that was really ... state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I ... Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... restaurant recently introduced a new kind of delicacy--the memelord burrito

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... so saw the Class of 2020 arrive on campus for their orientation, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012