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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel ... good at in high school, and you definitely don’t need to know what you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid ... members of Team Stealth we decided to dress up in miscellaneous combat gear

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... step in the lesson plan - it said to drop the tablets in the water, and ... !!!!!" I was stunned. One kid sidled up next to me, and gazed up in awe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... aggressively push the lever up and down in order for the toaster to heat up ... always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual ... was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little disappointed that I didn’t have anything to share. In elementary school, I was ... “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I ... PE golf right up until May so she would be able to graduate in June ... getting fit. Please dress for activity for first class. Juggling In this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  whenever my Lolo couldn't even fathom me not getting in. My mom had tried to ... my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my ... wanted to stay in southern California for the sake of my grandfather, out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  want to get out of bed in the morning. My therapist graciously snapped ... maladaptive coping mechanisms, but my inability to cry in front of other people ... care of the people in my life.  For so long, I have also wanted to do as

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth's room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets ... to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... , but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  entire savings to make bail after being taken in for “looking suspicious ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get ... of people of color, I need to spend as much time as I can in high

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most ... never works permanently. Every once in a while, somebody tries to clear up ... wanted to print the current W1MX logo on a PCB, but the best he could get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  going on titled "Youth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China" over in Sloan but I won't make it there in time. A later passage down ... Contests, and even a Soccer Tournament I'll try to update this entry as I

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  hospital in the Boston area until we were able to find them at two separate ... to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the bombing and are both in serious condition, at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... these two yet. =) In any case, it's getting complicated. Here are the ... issues of honesty and creativity in the theatrical moment, and begin to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  cup filled with cereal because I didn’t have time to get breakfast, and ... discovered the joy (not) of trying to do pullbacks in tennis shoes. But the mi ... that I missed dancing contemporary a lot! I love getting to be dramatic

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask ... route to transferring to MIT in September 2024, I attended a small liberal ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  tried to take photos when I was in town, starting with some evenings ... This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013