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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... ?). Unfortunately, I lost this card after the first day (Christina would probably roll

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into ... 't major in something I had prior knowledge in, compared to my pitiful

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... horses and other quadrupeds (note: these were in every museum. I took ... ;     this was in nafplio and I just thought it looked pretty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before ... older, I still loved math, and so did my dad. He works in construction

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  panicked when I called her as I was leaving my house in the morning. But when ... reasons I would go to one of those. *rolls eyes* The Chorallaries were there ... , and answered questions. In the middle of all this, I found out that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... . There was the year I read almost everything in the school library. The ... started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  citizen. I have the particular patriotism of an immigrant, rooted in deep ... support for undocumented students, and, in this uncertain time, I wanted to ... conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan ... update 7:05pm EST) Am I there yet: Yes! Hours in the airport: ~17 Hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  participate in MISTI. When senior year rolled around, I decided that a 5-month internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  . When I was in high school, our English teacher wanted us to write essays ... certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is ... A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  as they discover and interact with more spaces. Eventually, I would ... in their dorm rooms. I have a vinyl cutter in my GRA apartment—I think ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... least I didn't make any egregious spelling errors like I do in all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I ... seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I ... asked me during CPW back in 2019. “21E,” I said, thinking that every

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  , but I've been quiet and left you in suspense. This means that you all ... and odometry modules being developed in parallel. Check it out! As I think I mentioned in my bio, I spent three years in high school working on

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  say I was excited would be an understatement. Taking advantage of the ... pride that I had a fantastic time devouring four enormous cups of boba in ... parentheses in this post, but I’m going to roll with it: the new season of Top

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... material interesting. I was, in fact, much more interested in my friends’ shouting about [annotation note="Mechanics and Materials I in the mechanical

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... street fairs. My mom sat in my chair, and I on the floor, which is cement tile. In summer it’s blissfully cool, and when the swamp cooler broke I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... were anywhere else, they probably would have chuckled at the joke that I ... progress. After a while, I couldn’t have a conversation with anyone in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... letter in my name (A) and associated with "back"[/caption] I was initially ... , and in comparison, I felt limited in my strength, balance, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023