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• Blog / Uncategorized

  a love letter to McCormick and thoughts on its renovation

  

  university - the opening of McCormick COMPLETELY changed what it looked like to ... look a little different. When I step out of the Great Dome after classes, I’ll walk straight toward the Student Center instead of taking my

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 28, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  lifestyle, independent of family and old friends, who were now one Atlantic ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... of October, fall semester of freshman year - and it had been one of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  [annotation note="University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program ... One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we ... knit. For example, on the day of my return, they had a hotdog eating

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  traditionalist and as one of the "universal synthesists." Using the French Suite No ... classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and ... lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely ... apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , the current state of my life and psyche, and the existence of God ... all of your concerns about MIT and thus help me become a better blogger ... something. One of them, Bryan '06 was so crazy about biking that he took his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  imagines a universe when my parents were more accepting of me, and it is ... all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... in some cases, this is true; some of my graduating friends are sticking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  Sloan fellows to Singapore University of Technology and Design undergrads ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  Beaches and Bioreactors summer is gone and I'm trying to move on

  

  hardly registered the fact that summer is over. Following all the hustle of ... first-year orientation, when all of the frats and sororities host ... [/annotation], and the end of my UROP, the start of classes felt like an afterthought

  • by Nicholas R. '29
  • September 25, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  on one of those rare cold days, with icy sheets of rain washing the ... the well-practiced, the shouts of people reached my ears. “Come and see ... look at one of them— I have no idea what happened next. The world

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013