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  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  your status of enrollment. If you’re at home and there’s still even the ... shiny new envelope, there isn’t a whole lot of really neat stuff. Once you ... . New World Symphony Wow, I just managed to, by way of an obscure

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  a community of women. To my knowledge, the only man who lived here at ... was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... of other MIT undergraduate women. We're part of MIT's FSILG (Fraternity

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  resources your school might offer. and of course if you have a better design ... i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  family like mine. Unfortunately all this came at the cost of 2 full days of ... . To see The coming together of things.   Then Tuesday at 1pm I ... able to do any work at all. Also, we have a totally sweet new 3-axis

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... , getting swept up in the energy of a new academic year. But this fall, I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  's kind of tiring. But when I look at the list above, I can't imagine ... upcoming fall. And this is true: most of the classes I am taking are just ... . This is high school. --- Four years later at MIT, and here I am, in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  It is crunch time at MIT. Classes are over this Wednesday, and exam ... the start of Independent Activities Period (IAP). *Cue “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”* During IAP, students get to enjoy MIT without

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  they'd want to meet. (And they do, actually.) At the end of it all ... much of something that really matters out into the universe without ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT ... , this was at the top of my list because: It is so societally and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  at ben.mitblogs.com, etc. Then, at the beginning of the 06-07 school ... here, but um...that'd just be weird. Because the rest of this entry is SO ... gets the most disproportionate enjoyment out of the most random, absurd

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  it. During my freshman fall at MIT, one of my friends told me about a ... happens next, one line of dialogue at a time. I’d play out these scenarios ... some of my new pages to class, feeling utterly unconfident that anything

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

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  remain at the forefront of many fields and have contributed years of key ... Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr ... to: S. Res. 195 Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  new things, but none of these holds more meaning than happiness. And why ... the same kind of mistakes at about the same age, and master the same parts of language at about the same age. The input is necessary, but it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  20 different people! The ones at the bottom are by the daughters of the ... I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  engineering and applied international studies. You'll know at the end of the ... I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• FAQ / Testing

  Will MIT accept December testing for Regular Action?

  You can report all tests taken through the end of December for Regular Action consideration. We will also accept English language ... submit new results, simply click the "Add new test scores" link in the