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  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because ... unfair and inequitable education is in the United States. I cried because I

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... ), then it's back to square one. In my year, I think one team had to restart

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  World, or what I imagine Boy Meets World would have been like if I had ... school students, I decided that this anecdote would pair well with an ... .12 showed me that I really could do organic chemistry, if I just believed in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... as a kid. After a while it became apparent that I was stronger in the classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in ... salad. True story: I once failed a calculus quiz in high school because I ... beer actually replaces the yeast in ordinary quick breads.) I am told

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical ... technique in Venice, Italy after I graduated and then entered a business plan

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go ... view an online version. I sent my printed-out-PDF application via snail

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  notes doc in my phone to write them down in case they came to me. (I would ... in this class. Had I not take 6.034, I honestly would have quit ... Aaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  , because I thought it would be mostly political theory, but I was assured ... statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and ... (literally) in October 2020. I am super excited for this, but the first lecture

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I ... minutes! I could write a whole blog entry in those 15 minutes! But then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  ? i like both, but usually coffee In the last month have you... 031 ... country would you most like to visit? i've always wanted to check out india ... 013. Do you get along with your parents? yes 014. Your heritage? i am a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  out after our clinic in rural Nicaragua. Since I don't want to ... deeper level of my UROP that I was working on during the school year in ... Since I discovered that under my new schedule, I practically have NO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  . Doable in a week, even. Little did I know that it would take over a month ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don ... I troop downstairs once a day to practice, trumpet in one hand and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i ... what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a ... could not be more proud, and I am certain that you join me in thanking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  in designing the class ring (and plan Ring Delivery, but first things first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010