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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... new school year with more energy and more wisdom. An opportunity came

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  . For all of you medical school hopefuls (yes, the admissions process ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  , which I naively crammed into the Lagrangian instead of kickin' it old-school ... impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... building up of a structure. Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure ... Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of ... excitement of getting into MIT hasn't totally worn off yet. What's that? You

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  and slips off branches. By senior year of high school, many people have ... feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907 ... using [annotation note="This gives me a lot of nostalgia: https

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  just so great. recently, I got to watch an old School of Science video ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... light trickle growing into a noisy downpour. i remember high school summer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  to a school full of boring normal people? 2. MIT is so incredibly ... First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... -student. No school – just a soccer practice at 8 am and another at 2 pm, mid

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... % of my experience at MIT was being a first year, and man did it feel slow. Then, I was a sophomore, and that eventually took up 50% of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  form of an online course, especially given that virtual school has given me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of ... i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  school covered both of them at our first (only) Christmas concert way back ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  several of my Saturday mornings after I found an old CD containing Bobby ... starting my own company? Heh...nope. I played "Splish Splash", of course ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010