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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... beaver is sitting on eight ivy leaves. I'll let you fill in the blanks on ... letters "ILTFP" hidden in it. I like the inclusion of "ILTFP" as well as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I ... doctor and I was destined to become a twice-terminated project manager in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt ... A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  realized that I have finite time as a student, and in as much as I would like ... that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance ... weeks before it opened. I suppose as a member of the MIT community and a museum administrator, I could claim I went for professional interests, but

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  bus stopped it was 6 AM and nothing was in English. I took this to mean ... over 18 in order to attend Toy Fair. Apparently Maddie and I don't look ... at us but before she can say anything I chime in. "We're over 18

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  . so now, i'm taking [annotation note="i'll probably elaborate on them in ... at MIT. if i could do MIT over again, i think i would have been a hass major and a 6-3 minor (but i still would have done software). i'm going

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little disappointed that I didn’t have anything to share. In elementary school, I was

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped ... ingrained habit. When I was in high school, I would write about how sleep ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my ... studying something cool would make me happy. I spent that next summer in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  days, I would be the only one in office hours. But I ended up learning so ... -inducing, so I would recommend this class for people interested in this area! ... . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  ). This would give me a deeper understanding of the techniques I use, in ... ," and it's really flexible. In 18C, I would take a variety of course 18 ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  would be the third time I've moved in the past year, and to be honest, I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... other people while I’m in the room -- that I’m always happy. And I say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022