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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel ... people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself. Take pictures of yourself wearing silly hats. Take pictures of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  last rule helps break out of that stress. Every weekend, I take at least ... my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim ... . Two weeks later, I was at my first ever ultimate frisbee tournament. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  parentheses in this post, but I’m going to roll with it: the new season of Top ... compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... things: all that training at the beginning of the summer to be an analyst ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  friends at this school. one of the most uncertain things about freshman year ... out of bed before noon. this february i’m up at 8 am every day of the ... a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . Strained arms with sacks of cheap fruit from the Haymarket. Stared plenty at ... . Then I shall commence the sequel. Of new dreams in a new home. Coming ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  because of last year's internship at PlayStation, I have still not acquired ... , but I'm awful at technical interviews and haven't gotten the hang of ... , and I'm sort of stalled at the confluence of all three of these rivers

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  , Pat You can go see more of Pat's work at the Media Lab on his project ... decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and each one passes a little faster. I'm currently a Junior Fellow at the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all ... being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  (universities, etc) -- some have a particular amount of time allotted to X ... observing semester the telescope will look at your object(s) for the length of ... meant, but it sounded like a polite way of saying "nope." At the AAS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles ... career fair was kind of like being the twelve-year-old at your big brother's birthday party. You're kind of cute and everyone smiles at you and gives you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... , and Waciuma at the foundry. David from AMPS produced this episode of ... below or at the ZigZag comments box. The idea for this episode actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  whatever we wanted. I stared at the blank piece of bristol paper and thought ... at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  of things like "can eat five plates of food at dinner",* "can make ... free shirts. Just look at my haul: And, of course, I also did ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix. Tuesday Enjoy one of two meetings held in the greater DC Metro Area at the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  active members. MIT QSN is a relatively new group on campus; some of the ... again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... everything that I do, much of which I could almost only do at MIT. A little

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater ... our wait list, 14 will be offered admission. At that point, our wait ... The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015