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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  aren't mandatory, but for a lot of struggling students, they were ... hub for course information, scores, feedback, and quizzes. I'm not a ... The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... known for its hiking, I, being a native of LA, I am inevitably enchanted

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  and drifted in a sea of Rachmaninoff and Debussy for an hour and a half ... The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  . Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and ... almost a letdown. Now that I got what I wanted for so long, well, *now ... holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Experimentation I also shopped 21M.601 - Drawing for Designers for a couple weeks ... , centers instead on dynamics. This was my favorite class this semester, for a ... the middle of the night. The class made for a welcome break from my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  to last me for like 3 more years now), a couple of mixing bowls, a ... soldering iron in one day is more than a girl could ask for, nevermind all ... . Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... , as before italics were used for formatting, it was considered a ... typography. I taught a class about vexillology for a lecture during Summer HSSP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we ... always has a light on because graduate students never stop working. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  universities, MIT has a quota for the number of international students it can ... there aren't enough lines for all A-levels and O-levels. My recommendation ... 's Tennis Coach for a little over 2 years now..how helpful is getting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... sure it has been that way for the past two and a half years, but it is ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  Cambridge, you get a supervisor for every class. You usually share this person ... The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... Time). If this date/time changes for any reason, it will be announced on ... following criteria: You have applied for freshman admission (not transfer or

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  My grandfather was from Milledgeville, Georgia. He was a simple man who was known for his crazy sayings and no nonsense demeanor. He had little patience or tolerance for anything that wasted his time. Whenever he

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...

  

  Benson L. ‘27 to look for potentially useful items at the Swapfest (a ... beautiful view of the Charles River. But one can only be a homebody for so ... It was 2 pm on a warm summer Sunday. Fiona L. ‘27 and I were at

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 14, 2026
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  strangers for a job, and three Skype interviews later, here I am! It turns out ... , linguistics...) are just right for a very particular project: looking at DEEDS ... fall, new classes, a new room, catching up with MIT friends... but for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... for the Visit Team that I sit on. I organized a tour guide program at my undergrad institution, I had worked with students for two years a college

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... for the event under my regalia. But a fateful gchat with Chris '09 ... realized I didn't have to reminisce just yet, and pranced off to a machine

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  library" (fancy name for a bookcase in the floor lounge where people stash ... to give up on the circuit problem for a little while, even if just to ... the pages together in a neat pile, ready for submission.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  ;? Congrats to Bryan for completing it! Bloggers have strong track record; Mitra ... hand, it’s four days off in a row! Imagine the possibilities! You ... catch up on work and sleep. And yet, there’s never really time for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008