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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW" but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  only have three semesters left at the institution, and I've been thinking ... looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... incredibly kind, brilliant, hilarious, and inspiring, and they made me into who

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... set of questions they see as unanswered and/or conflicts they see as ... they intend to approach analytically and solve with solid evidence and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  Esplanade and leaving The Institute behind at the end of the day for a few ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... about their lives here and I read all the admissions blogs too but I wasn

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list ... projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... semesters, and felt like I had squandered a block of time I could have spent

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... Campus dorm during my freshman and sophomore years, but when some friends were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards ... Pyrenees, right between Spain and France! Wait, you still don't see it? It ... Massana, Encamp, Escaldes, Andorra la Vella, and Sant Julià. Fun fact: if

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and ... , I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and ... star plate. It was all resolved and put back together, at least all the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... (7.26) and computation structures (6.1910/6.004) at a high level, the ... science and engineering, and fabrication technologies; then there are weekly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice ... and wedding announcements have appeared. Several of my middle school ... United Kingdom and started medical school at Stanford. Sometimes I think

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  resist reaching out and offering a hug. even if we've tested negative ... , that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  ) and chilled for four months taking various online courses, studying Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... , and then video calling my adMIT friends until 2 am.    like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  especially appreciate the time and guidance our coaches offer. Having feedback ... , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice ... and which way we were forcing the other team to throw, that was enough

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  As a freshman you will probably be taking two sciences, a math, and a humanities class. The sciences and maths are pretty standard fare; you'll have ... tests, APs, and whether you'd prefer Chem or Bio first semester. On the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever ... many assignments due Wednesday, and I would just be like, "Oh, oh, oh, it's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... its requisite promises and challenges; in his past lies a strong, resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  customization, including resident-constructed lofts, shelves, and miscellaneous ... needed was free, as it came from the roller coaster and fort sites ... sized loft, before quickly realizing that my room is way too small and the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we were a year ago quite a bit. it's inevitable; each day, SnapChat memories pop up and ... days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider

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

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  . Don’t forget to provide your name and MIT ID, stating clearly that ... About the Early Action Deadline and Application Components   ... trouble submitting their Parts 1 and 2.) Your school/teachers may submit

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015