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• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a ... little like falling in love: one trip to the campus and they "just knew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find ... assignment. Dorm lighting tends to disappoint. Invest in a desk light or even ... outlets in each room, but they don't always tend to be in the most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8 ... Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because ... feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  . Maybe I need more people to talk to. In any case, that video is now ... some links to things I mentioned in the video! All about the James Webb ... /suggestions/lifehacks/ways-to-not-be-clueless-in-a-kitchen, leave those below in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  when I woke up at 9 am to get ready I saw the following e-mail in my ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... manipulate game objects. Unlike the machines in Introduction to Design

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get involved in the hacking community. All he wants to be is hardcore (there is ... to 4-6 shows for each production period. Anyone who has been in an MTG

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  : After a little while, people started to get restless. Being locked in an ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  flexibility. In addition to conducting electricity, they can become transparent ... properties has led to conductive polymers being used in OLED (organic LED ... was just because I didn’t want this blog post to get uncontrollably long

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of ... seen myself as the "frolicking in nature" type (due to my allergies, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their ... value leadership in the same way? Will the ASA continue to understand just ... ] to act in the best interest of the MIT Community and of the Student

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms/lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  over the next couple of days. Moving on to rooms: I've been living in a ... corner of a wall. I know. Neha '10 wants me to write "ON PURPOSE" in ... decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  another one in actually seeing those places. I did try to get out when I ... instead of drowning in it. On not being afraid to make mistakes and get ... In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... - are general to all those interested in enhancing their education ... problems on the test. I had to step it up and give it my all in order to pass

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... that I cried to during some of my shittiest moments in high school, and ... comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  dictated by the circumstances of one's birth. ????? You don't get to choose if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... adjust to life at an institution like MIT. I regret that I didn't get to go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of ... them in even if I wanted to. [annotation note="arguably much shorter ... was going to start moving in next. A few months later, in a [annotation

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011