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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  around you is one of the most important parts of making this school ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... asleep and the story continued. Eventually, I’d be wrenched out of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  understand? Don't you know that the view from the bottom of the Lobby Ten steps ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of ... now. I thought I would've been hardened entering the doors of Lobby

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the bulk of conversations that I have had about essays, right around this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student ... by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  one of my best friends from high school, who came to MIT with me. Rumor ... Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to find poetry under calculus mit museum and constrained writing

  

  beyond acting in a small school production of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream ... , which is part of the reason I chose to be here today. And one of my strongest first memories of this place—the one that cemented the nerdy MIT

  • by Joy X. '29
  • October 2, 2026
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  of believability and credibility to both the school and the admissions ... of this school through the eyes of current students. Anytime you find ... 've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my classes are exploding chugging from the firehose

  

  really enjoyed my history class in my senior year of high school, and was ... number of classes first years can take. Each full-time class is 12 units ... majors at the end of first year!"] Physics major [/annotation]. I’d taken 8

  • by Joy X. '29
  • October 5, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... struggled to make friends through elementary and into middle and high school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  school and most of college i believed that people who worked in high ... dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I ... content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  school. For a long time I had been very out of touch with other ethnic ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... rock band CDs and video game/TV/movie soundtracks. In high school, I became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  of this after hanging out with the aforementioned high school friends ... title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  since my senior year of high school (Hi Ms. Graglia!), so it has been kind ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  be during the school year (gotta remind myself of that during finals ... readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010