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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  out of this towards the end of elementary school, but still kind of ... means making sure that we’re not both wearing the same article of school ... This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... becoming an MIT admissions blogger: you must be scared of the dark. Bold ... middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of people have felt this way, because of the way that many people got very ... -flying) animals. the ones that can't fly are still this type of animal. this is a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... two high school boyfriends are both currently in PhD programs (pure math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... be really awful and lonely, and maybe you spent lots of time just

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with ... school who also ended up on the East Coast for university, see Big Fish and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  flu season. Even our poor school representative, number man, has fallen ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  . I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously ... say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due ... same time on Friday afternoon, 12/9/05. If someone received a piece of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  (take advantage of pass/no record and see your friends at other schools ... Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... , a group of interior decorators and a contractor take over a house and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  to offer (and stuff your face with free food!). Join a fun group of ... Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next week!!! We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2022! GET HYPE

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  kicking around the idea of applying to various kinds of graduate school ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  squads of around 9 with people from other ROTC programs like Northeastern ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot ... of higher, and passwords so you can identify friendlies. Each team has

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben's post regarding the official release date of ... school every day, uphill. Both ways. Anyway, I was thinking we could all ... finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... out of Next if you move here in your first year - but that's a story for ... leave the entire contents of their shower onto the part of the floor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007