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  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  red brick and marble, Corinthian columns, old-style decor. T-shirts that ... -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... history of tattoos, and Yiddish politics, and ghost stories.  Fortunately

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  it, that you can't understand until they happen to you. And then there ... , and just rereading it now stirs my heart: https://mitadmissions.org ... , and the late-night suitcase-dragging walk through the airport, onto the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and ... !  People almost always stereotype college meals as ramen, cereal, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... escalating unpredictable horrible move-out week in March, and how even just ... know how fast you can lose everything you counted on and have your whole

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get ... and our teachers would nominate select students to participate. I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and ... Danielle, Grant, Christine, Julia, and then in the middle is a giant, egg ... a day. That was us. And then…one day…it wasn’t… Everyone went from

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it ... super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that ... the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There’d be guests from serious organizations like OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MIT ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  , and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  campus happiness between today and yesterday is the biggest i've ever seen ...   and laughing at a bizarre article about the "craziest items seized by the TSA"  until 9, then walked into the kitchen and sat talking with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I've started my class. If you're a mechanical engineer, attend MIT, and are a ... Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  June, and Paul Baranay '11, Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson '11, Jonathan Chapman '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... been printed. And a few—a very few—had not even been finished

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  understood what I was talking about at all, and Mrs. O'Brien told me I was ... supporting my conclusion, and she told me that Joyce Carol Oates called that ... like two years until I read Everything is Illuminated and found out that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  hours, and I'm feeling a little guilty. See, it's the MIT biology interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... weather, and I assured them that it had been warm all winter and had hardly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... was just really weird getting here and hearing it called "lonn" though ... "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  comments. So go back and read the comments! It's like when your favorite ... music, and I've heard that MIT has a rather strong music department. Could you give me a little information on its orchestra and chamber music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... Tuesday, November 26th. Our spirit is indomitable, and our ambition knows no bounds. After 251 messages, 4 in-person scheming sessions, and a very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  . Senior year was a blur, and junior year basically never existed. I forgot ... clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... , doing laundry regularly), and worse at the things I used to do

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  ="probability and random variables"]18.600,[/annotation] just this morning, after ... energy drinks and naps on a very cozy couch. The exam still went rather ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021