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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... , this particular all-nighter pales in comparison to last semester's 30

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to ... to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  little fun in between hours spent chopping wood to help heat our home ... of camaraderie forged in the face of adversity. I've learned to embrace ... 'm reminded of the myriad ways in which transitioning to a prestigious

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... by Visa and MasterCard for currency conversion to Volaris. In return

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms ... first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... /directed/edited/produced the entire thing themselves, and did it all in 2 weeks from concept to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow That count resounded in ... mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  and families in order to get a better education, so that my siblings and ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... my first elementary school, they had to ask the school to not put me in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a ... different person than the Maggie from 2008. When I came to MIT, I lived in a ... neighbor Lizz came in to offer her daily dose of humor. “What do you call

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... you will get. I'm writing a separate blogpost on my tips and tricks to ... how long I waited to get that spot. It'll be the artist, the date, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because ... , inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap ... , and since then have managed to actually organize and get this event to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... waves traveled through the wires to create mechanical waves in the speaker ... , and we are the wine glass, ready to resonate in tune. When the speaker

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing homes, in ... often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning was foreign to me, and I ... befriend the flame. Similarly, I’ve grown close to the people in the club

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  about selling string bracelets to raise money? I did this with a group in ... started labeled #fundraising with a request for people to help in: Making ... to order some bracelets, crochet pins, earrings, or get a surprise

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  ’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... of trying to get student rush tickets for Wicked (the untold story of ... had to go see it and make funny faces at her in the booth and show my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... there is a world in which you don’t have to worry about erasing the same ... program to help us with remote work in the age of COVID. Alex has also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020