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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  (actually outside not in my school gym) but the spirit of it was the same ... treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... down a gravel road. So every Halloween, my “route” consisted of exactly

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in ... comfortable with the big/little dynamics in some of my social groups, enjoying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  extra years of life   How schools kill creativity This video is a ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a campus with 5000mph winds stripping away every last ounce of warmth your

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in September. I knew that this transition would be challenging. Juggling all of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it ... Cambridge as much as I would've liked during the school year, so that's one of ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the ... myths kid back in middle school, but I didn't know much of the actual ... through in high school, when I taught myself out of textbooks, or scrambled

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  National Advanced School of Public Works. They known each other all their ... video made by the MIT School of Engineering, discussing his work.  ... . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  ergonomic--Scandinavian design for the win!--and I have a great view out of my ... It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  foul chemicals you do not know the name of. They make the metal that you ... flaws in the designs. Someone else, perhaps as sleepless as yourself ... ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  firm designed for hardware startups. Two out of three of the founders got ... few hours, woke up, rolled out of bed, splashed my face with cold water ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  in the Sloan School of Management who is using an algorithm to help ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of ... I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (more commonly known as "CRLS" or

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... hose. -Back to story- As school starts to take off, I'm slowly settling

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... there. I taped my favorite pair of running shoes back together with it too ... selected the schools I applied to

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County ... with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017