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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my ... doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College ... would understand the "E/c^2 ... sqrt(-1) ... PV/nR" shirt. I was just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not ... the "Add new test scores" link in the application portal. We accept
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  hub of Maine's South Coast region. I was in Maine for three days, so I ... didn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things, because I was ... minutes. But I never believed in linear time anyway. Since my life is a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  in the email. I decided that if I hadn’t already sent it I would have ... ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is ... the world and what I value (versus what I’ve thought I valued in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ...  was nervous. I was certain my life would change. I opened the application portal ... me that I was the only person that MIT deferred, and I would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I ... and toasty back home in Oregon. I remember my first night walking back ... the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  tights, I would. I’ll wear what I’m comfortable in, and I’m not going to ... is still mostly men. I would love to spend a day in her shoes (and ... take you anywhere. Where do you go? I would probably go back in time to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto ... clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first ... I had three tests in a row, plus a problem set due that same Thursday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... saw myself smiling in the mirror during the jazz combo, or I would share ... I thought I would be okay a whole three weeks out, but even during

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... saying here i have never literally foamed at the mouth. that would be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  enough challenges in life or in academics and would cave the first time I ... for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... would have made me laugh in astonishment if it did not make me cry. I was ... structure in constant, intermittently blinding dust storms. I'd look up and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say ... month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... people rode the bus, partially because the bus I would take was usually

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... get as many piercings as I wanted once I went to college. All I would ... pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... enough in lecture so I have a question to ask them after class. I'm griping less about this class than I normally would is because I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually ... subway in…  NYC   Before this summer, I went to NYC once with a friend ... naively thought that I could see all of NYC in 3 days and was quickly

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... I wasn’t in the worst boat—some kids didn’t even know there was a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023