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• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  academia should look like and of who belongs in it. Once, in high school, I ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of things.[/annotation] I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms ... year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  see, very concretely, the huge range of opportunities that are on offer ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... . * The movie is not shot on MIT campus at all. Most of the "in-school ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  seemed to leave. Suddenly I was balancing a busy summer of working, taking ... I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  life has been weird. life has been extremely busy. it feels like ... of tissue, then move that to the recipient's hole[/caption] needless ... intensity of that week. i'm taking a step back and realizing that it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ... grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  of just helps me gauge my offers and remember my goals. Blog every ... coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can ... mind (this is a school of logical thinkers, after all), but it is so, so ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... it, and a tall, steep slide with no railings, a relic of past building

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... ’ve started as early as middle school, when I joined Science Bowl and was one of ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  fact that it felt all so high school to me; that these were the kinds of ... previous experience with large groups of men in high school, who seemed to ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  Missa, Junior year definitely was a rough time. Most of high school feels ... next year, where I found out that my high school offered fencing as a ... floor of my school on Wednesdays until 6:30 came around and I could call

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us ... time with his compadres! Q: We know you lead a busy life, full of ... life. Oh no. Q: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my finals were on Monday, which meant I could spend all of Tuesday sleeping in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  basic idea of GTL is that you teach a classroom full of high school ... work as basically TAs as part of a middle school/high school outreach ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  talking about grad school applications and job offers. I began to realize ... , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023