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• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks at mit have definitely been very fulfilling and gratifying, yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and ... . And both times, it was wonderful. Two (very long) years apart, after a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  off short buildings.  Grumkins who haunt the hallways and who never see ... written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The ... that they're worthy of MIT, and prove to themselves that they can handle ... having just finished registering for classes. He is ready to go and succeed

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  " YES! So as college students, we're constantly looking for deals, and we ... tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  Congratulations, universe. You've managed to put me into another ... my friends and I started looking for an externship (a short internship ... combination of technology and fashion design. By December I knew I would be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  It's spring break here at MIT and I'm busy with thesis work. I want ... website and prepping myself for any courses I need to take before I apply ... . I got to tour the MIT Minecraft server, and we were throwing snowballs

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  organization which recruits top students from prestigious universities and hires ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the ... 're in the same town and governed by the same school board, Middletown

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  , and neither are having extra rodent roommates. To a degree, housing and ... 'd requested and discarded essays, I may have killed a tree. I'll plant one when ... things to consider when I applied to college. And so the list begins

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... 25 things about yourself, and then inflict this upon others, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... maga, and did art with some coworkers! pole I’ve tried out the stripper ... learning? I found a studio in central Copenhagen and took a trial class

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... freshman was lucky, and only had two finals (8.022 Electricity and Magnetism, and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record

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

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  products. They pitched their ideas to local entrepreneurs and the university ... zone/learn about Moscow culture and the university/explore the city and ... ) and pet llamas (Exhibit B) and may have eaten llamas (shhh don’t tell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  through [annotation note = "I asked her about it now and apparently the ... maximum, and then treat the first two weeks as ‘reading period.’ This works, in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees counterclockwise to face Boston. And repeat. After a while of this ... around and answered questions about student life while Tiffany (who’s pretty awesome!) answered the hard questions about applications and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... Archives and Special Collections" and the Lewis Music Library. The Institute ... each and every MIT library. Now I have collected my notes for your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... . (and getting into politics with a stem degree is easier than ever, so ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025