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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of ... saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... of the times in high school when I would stay after school ranting to ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was ... essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  paradise of Stanford. But it's hard--grad school is different because you don ... DID YOU KNOW? The MIT school fight song, "The Engineers' Drinking Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of ... an idea of how behind on email I am right now). He wrote, "The male

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  my old high school friend Alaina. Turns out she and three of my other friends from high school marching band decided to come up to the Boston area ... have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  After questions about homeschooling, one of the most frequent ... graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... of early- and mid-teenagers, those who, even though young, would truly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• 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