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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  name. Malingap is talking about what I’m interested in and feeling ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... something funny in common that I only learn later: they attended previous

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... dawned on me that in order to use Android Device Manager, I'd have to log

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew ... . In that respect, I appreciate the spotlight that is now shining

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... row in the same direction. People and projects can be grouped into ... society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... Faneuil Hall in the winter.    Boston Harbor I saw the ocean for the first ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  'm pretty sure I can distinctly hear Max in that cacophony of noise ... positions in SolidWorks.  Then, using Keynote's Magic Move feature, I ... designing and fabricating our product, and I'm not about to present it in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one ... I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  the Green Building flicker in your peripheral vision. You can’t tell if ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  words, which I think means storm surge. It's in line with sigwa, a violent ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021