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• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  the feeling of awe at the university — but also trying to figure out ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  attending one of the most advanced universities in the world. I can’t tell you ... idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of these well funded research universities. You have the GI Bill, you ...  podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• 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

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• 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 / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  information the next time the question comes up, instead of "🤔 I don't remember ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far, we've discussed the history of transportation in the United States

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• 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 / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  , I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe ... ...school. After all, Boston is full of treats, and how could I not indulge in exploring? Narrowing down my list of living places, I decided on pika, an MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... be taking alot of electives since I need them for a graduation ... that you are spending your time in meaningful ways outside of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 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