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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  have had good reasons! As some of you may know, I've been studying abroad ... months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each ... the end of the year (Easter term). Since each student generally takes 5

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some synthetic textile like polyester, while my mom was convinced that “of course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while ... as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... . Besides, it gives me a lot of insight into my personal data: when I fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... sort of art. The group hosts various art-related speakers, outings, and events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... full week's worth of life into it. This semester, I only had one final, on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... greatest number of times. [caption id="attachment_41597" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  talk to lots of different people at MIT about their experiences here, and about MIT in general. most of the people i talk to will be people on my ... of [annotation note="a wonderful acapella group that i'm a part of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester, I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think ... measurement of your worth. A decision does not validate or invalidate your life

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or ... largely looked like me. A lot of us are poor, black, and had lost any long

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I have somehow become one of those crusty seniors who still haunts these hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and currently Design Partner ... share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great deal of interesting and insightful anecdotes to share. Here are some

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of ... " instead of tackling hard technology problems that have more world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016