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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... thought were acceptable answers. I barely finished on time and handed in my ... discussing how it was "sorta easy". I failed. Badly. Geez, I can't seem to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... .   I feel it when I'm hiding in a dorm room with twenty people, all ... use a second chance.   I feel it when we're in our Associate Head

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January ... time to tag people in memes anymore??? or to even look at memes??? i felt

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

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  The host: I worked in a small software engineering team that are ... ;if you can survive in India, you can survive anywhere else ... conducted in my lab, I researched projector based AR systems, and eventually

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... roam free for hours upon hours. When I lived in Florida, this pet was ... make 4 movies in total (I stopped after watching #2) Yes, ladies and

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite ... suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT, but I think the Spanish classes have taken a step in the right direction

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... ’m blogging again! More people can have this experience!” So I’m here, freshly caffeinated (can you tell?), ready to bare all. I’m going class by class, show

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  I can’t wait for what the next four years has in store :D ... were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  before our eyes, I can’t wait for all that is in store. My own prefrosh ... as I think about all of the prefrosh that will be checking-in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in because I expressed my number in scientific notation? Do I need more Sig ... that one, even though when I was in your spot I probably wouldn't have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  taken, and the projects I've done in them.   21W.750: Experimental ... experimental writing. As you can see below, I chose to use repetitive letter ... hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to ... ; I told her that MIT students will express their concerns in any avenue

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  find work I can absolutely lose myself in and put every beautiful thing I ... ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... what?" "I dunno, seven.. meaningful things." With that helpful advice in ... Cafe: breakfast in PJs. After sleeping through half the day (what'd I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and ... think and I'll post my favorites in a few days. Be prepared for vigorous

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  . Sometimes a kind and gentle reminder can be helpful. Otherwise, I hope you ... at least as normal as things can be less than two weeks before the ... 23. I do recommend contacting your EC this weekend, if you haven't done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... compass in their pockets. While I didn't get as involved as I would have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In ... essays are not advice, or even guidelines. I can only tell you what I did ... ? Well, I’m not on any admissions committee, so I can only speculate

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015