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• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... question singular bold of you to assume I would ever go on a campus tour

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... accelerate the passing of time? i am in a headspace where i cannot fathom why anyone would ever willingly settle down, where i cannot understand why

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je ... salad this side of July 14th. I erroneously added the raspberries in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  in scale was dramatic. I knew that it would be: when I solicited advice ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... in my seat as I urge players to run faster, jump higher, and save the ... would be France. I remember waking up at 3 AM to watch them churn out an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would ... -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  , I would have emailed him in September. Good thing I was on pass ... I've worked in corporate America for about 5 "semesters" now (they don ... . During my CPW in April 2003 (wow), I took some photos of all the madness

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the third week or so, which would make that test the “midterm”. I don’t like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  would shift again toward socializing in the coming weeks. All in all, I ... I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first ... to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to solve problems and the only thing I ever heard was "In high school

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... Aye, I'm back with more architecture adventures. I feel like all I ever blog about is architecture stuff - but who am I kidding - it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  everyone else's blogs. I would be happy to get feedback from my readers on ... philisophical essays about MIT, I start wondering if maybe my readers would rather just see some pictures of events after all. Though I think that I would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in-depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing ... in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done, which is kind of generically useful. In other words, I've always felt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... finals. As a lifelong strong-test-taker, I thought I would prefer final ... 13) I am in Seattle, in my parents' house, and more specifically in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  world works In a class I took last semester, we would often be assigned ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I came into MIT not knowing what I would study, ended up going with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... the little things that I'm pumped about, in no particular order: I ... . This entertains me because in the first month of quarantine, I went

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I felt last week on a scale of 1-10, I would have said negative 15 +/-2. On ... 15 +/-2, I would have given you a solid 9.5 and then offered to adjust

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... foam was all in disarray. If I were doing cool hard stuff, the way it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020