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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... surprised to hear they had a pretty heavy course load, despite having most of their requirements done. I thought that most people would want to take a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... from that moment that I knew, tonight was going to be a good one

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  sweatpants, and give them to a smiling volunteer holding an enormous bag full ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... 't have a holistic process. Suppose that we wanted to build an application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... and have been able to rattle off a list of their five favorite airplanes ... pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a ... ,[annotation note="in particular, I had missed mine to play in a pit orchestra

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  of my friends know, I love airports – I have half a mind to spend ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere ... -decker buses and inattentive taxi drivers, I'm treated to a tranquil route

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a ... , making a computer 3D model isn’t the best way to start an idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... that list: Intro to Trading, a crash course about how markets work ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get ... 's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015