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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and the best medium-rare burger I'd had in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when I turned 18, or was it when I had my Bat Mitzvah at 12? "When I grow up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how ... the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre-orientation program (FPOP) Discover Biology. We'll be out until midnight, but i'm really

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... graduating seniors - I'll miss you).  Can't wait to meet 2019s in the fall! ... Regular readers may know that I've admired Apple's design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across ... ) as Melis '08 laughs at me in her warm, warm sweatshirt. I hate you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in ... On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N ... , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant ... in the office at 8:30. I AM A MACHINE. For some background on me

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However, since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... been involved in actually just starting from this semester. I'm the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks ... the first show I've binge watched in a while and it was absolutely ... bookworm who absolutely loved Medieval High Fantasy. In the last two years I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

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  We understand that paying college application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... , which was held in the last week before we were all kicked out. I took six ... Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole day walking around the area in the glorious warmth and sunlight that ... , homemade gelato in Beacon Hill, truffles on Newbury, Trader Joe's chips in my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born in Seoul. I've heard stories from my grandparents about their memories ... important. I confirmed my belief that the world we live in now is different

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I ... details of my life. I'll tell you things I want you to know in my blog, but ... I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... in part because I wanted to study humanist/social concerns that were ... one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  real homecomings for me. In the few moments that I wasn't working, I was ... . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... delicious as I remembered. In fact, I'm salivating just thinking about them

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  ="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... ="650"] The instructor let me take it home![/caption] I SPLIT AN ARROW Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024