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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... surprise when I told them about my decision. Their main point: why would I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the yarn intertwines, my heart can mend too. I never realized I would ... . Who would've known that ten years later, I would still be knitting? I ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... generally disdain the reporting about MIT in the Boston Globe, I did like the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... of this squeeze I had left in front of me: Needless to say, caving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the ... in 2:24pm: i text the person who emailed 2:57pm: the person roller

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don ... idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... would make sense in a professional setting like an HR department. But

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... stuck in a lab for most of the day. I mean, I'm sure she was voluntarily ... tunnels, or the fact that my host and I found an elevator in the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... Things I Love About MIT (or at least it would be, if such a list actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  [/annotation]? Will the class be fun and engaging? What value would I get from taking this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... taking. In order, they are: Will I thrive in this class if I took it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him ... : "First, I recognize there is a major difference between people I would want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  to see if I would like who I become if I stop putting in the effort to ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... 've gone too far. Whoever wrote MIT's graphic identity rules would writhe in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what I expected - I guess I didn't really think about how bad it would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... supplemental portfolio, but you do not need to; I would only consider this if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... the lobby, I told people that the score was 6-0 (true) in favor of the ... wondered if people would reconsider my credibility about everything else I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  in this picture too but I couldn't find anyone passing by who would lay ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that ... summer, I would highly suggest watching Dance 360, America's hottest dance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005