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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for instance, many people in Boston do like the Red Sox and say "ah" instead of ... work right at the edge of their abilities. But this difficulty is what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... computer, start watching an episode from the fifth season of Scrubs. Decide

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  researchers at the Technical University of Denmark, both having to do with the ... lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have regular psets, but almost all of my classes have assigned reading! A week

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an incredibly brilliant student at MIT who is capable of rattling ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  , here I am, headed towards one of the biggest changes life has to offer ... first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in ... handful of people from CPW. Four years felt like such a long time back then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... parents, and my mother handed me a package of peanut M&Ms and an

  • by Ella T. '25
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your child survive the process of choosing the right college for him/her. As you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... Fest, organized by Madhouse Motors every spring. I’d heard of it from [annotation note = "residents of Random Hall, the soon-to-be last bastion of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... -commitment sampling of the corporate workplace. This year, there were over 400

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  as excited about the start of Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Yet, after ... of our admitted students and those parents who are on campus as well ... attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of ... me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... imagine that you're walking toward that venue, with the intention of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  of my cosmology / astronomy / universe-related textbooks!" with "I call ... of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... 's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on. As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Period) at MIT, which offers a plethora of random activities, ranging from ... .46 Neuroscience of Morality and 9.85 Infant and Child Development. The two offerings ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the class of 2010 who are straggling onto campus over the next few days, I ... you can see the colors of their towels, and you still can't see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006