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  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  MIT's study abroad program in Japan. "I've always been interested in ... knows it will be an adjustment. "Now, I'm a big fish in a small pond," he said. "There, I'm going to be a small fish in a big pond, and I'm not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  In my last days at MIT, I painted this mural on my hall. I ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off ... about it. In a single day, I had a base coat up, went shopping for paint

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... after learning about it from my friends, I thought it would have been a ... lowest officer rank, instead of enlisting--in other words, you would be in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  years and i would never make much progress on anything in particular and ... in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and ... ) position, which i wasn’t super excited about because i don’t think working in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  soon, I just moved in.   As part of Orientation each fall, MIT ... wanted to try an experiment in Soylent, a meal replacement shake. I first ... and that improved the taste. I would bring one around campus and sip it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... (because my classes started so late), haha, but I went to sleep earlier in ... a whole summer! =D During the last week of my stay in Taiwan, I went

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide ... school. Finally, my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office are happy to ... applying for financial aid on the Student Financial Services website.  The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  dormitory phone and asked me if I would like to go to service for Rosh ... Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in ... clothes!" I, uh, hope I haven't come off as insensitive thus far in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing ... thought of talking about vaginas in front of an audience made me blush; I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... -orientation program. So back in June, I signed up for the Freshman Arts Program (FAP ... residents were all really cool people, and that I would have the most fun

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... ! Me: I...yesss? I...I guess so? (I guess I have DNA in all parts of me ... 'm playing sine waves in the shower. i sincerely apologize and if you need me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... applications in earnest. Here are some updates from the Admissions Office ... currently processing more than 10,000 documents which have all arrived in just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one ... because when I devote time to one thing, it seems like I’m losing ground in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  the field is completely different. I might have been in over my head ... England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... GEL to teach me the things I never would have learned at MIT otherwise

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  inside is vibrant, if not necessarily practical. I take pride in biking ... there. But I don't have to live there. And even if I would have drawn it in the housing lottery, REX would have given me the chance to change my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... would say Kirkland, Washington. It's where I've spent most of my life ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the ... . Tonight, my subconscious is in a recursive mood. I dream that I fell asleep ... this stage in the dream, I immediately wake up in real life, clutching a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go ... simple narrative: friends, food, firehose. That’s what I expected coming in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  ). What would I like to see: inasmuch as Stanford says their students ... AP tests. I am, however, disturbed that anyone would advocate ... ) California kid who was told in 8th grade that I needed to take five million AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006