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• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  regular basis, or that I would forget the existence of misery in the world ... imagined that in the midst of relentless intellectual challenges, I would ... sunlight, crystallize it in glass forever. Sometimes I succeed, but it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even ... better this way. Now, I will always remember them in their best form with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  b.s. or exercises in covering your tracks after messing up. But then I ... first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and ... I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  night in Hong Kong, I leaned over the balcony in the common room and watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other ... things. Over the summer, I climbed a tree in a banana suit (long story) and ... go, you could blog about it..." OKAY I'M IN SUCKERS! Thus, Luke, Sasha

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority ... us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I was thinking that I’d take you all on a tour of a few of them! Alpha Phi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same ... like basically ending and I can just become *one with the nature* here in

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab ... to be hardcore and sleep outside in the snow. Sam and I were among ... picture, because I told everyone to gather in and then held my camera out at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  in on 6.006 I dropped 6.006 to Listener mid semester but continued ... learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class ... House']4W[/annotation] people. I got like two tossups in the entire

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in ... internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It ... 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... 12.5% of our total grade in the class, I was not so happy about it. I ... that I'm capable and can do engineering things in interesting classes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  and said "Why not? Why would she not get in?" The day I got in, I cried ... Know that I'm with you The only way that I can be Until you're in my ... to visit me in Massachusetts for "when" I got into MIT. He knew about

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

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... at home ever since. I've been in my house for what I think is going on ... comfortable, is really not necessary for your bed. In fact, I fear that it may

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  company past the program. Exhibit D: So proud of them :') While in Peru, I ... the dogs i am so behind in everything i’m dropping chinese because i ... because we took many photos and where else would I share them but with you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I ... . ***: I would not recommend supergluing objects to your fingers

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to send an official college transcript?

  application process will be recorded as "College Transcript" in our database. If ... entered as a supplemental document in your file. Enrolling first-year students who would like their college courses considered for credit transfer