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• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  15 +/-2, I would have given you a solid 9.5 and then offered to adjust ... , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  about applying to our institution, we give your counselors and teachers ... fun and exciting event where all admitted students who come to campus ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  understand what it means to be alive and human at this Institute, would require ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... classes, enjoying my time in them, so on and so forth. It seemed, however

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... -efficient chemical engineering machine capable of diluting solutions and running ... new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that ... at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... school, and dreaming about MIT since elementary school, and holy crap I ... and started doing a terrible but energetic jig right there.) Hi there

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... enormously rewarding. After we all gather around the table, Marilee offers ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  in kendall square or come to the whitehead institute (where i work) and ... you are loved, and that no matter what the universe tries to throw at ... latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  first 21w.755 (reading and writing short stories) lecture last semester ... the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was about the id, ego, and superego; another person said it modeled election

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement and the eight point General Institute Requirement. The swimming
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and ... institute, and I go directly there. [carousel image1="76933" image2 ... decompress and have lunch. I typically alternate days working at the institute

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right ... stack are some papers from DEAPS. Discover Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that's partly tortured, and partly beautifully ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About ... wisdom regarding all things MIT and also possibly his blogging prowess. I ... , and 'cheap' prices. On the other side, I can get a Mac with it's super

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  that this wasn't sustainable, and next year I'd rather not write "Things ... 's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class ... interesting, and 24.902 Intro Syntax, didn't have readings. So the only class I

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

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  course catalog that some departments (like 10 and 22) offer a joint BS and ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based almost entirely on tests... so basically I have three tests, a pset, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006