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  Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be, too A conversation with LIVE by Po-Shen Loh

  

  and MIT Admissions, presented as a bit of a conversation so you can see some of the behind-the-scenes thinking happening at MIT and LIVE ... , students gain a stronger understanding of math, but more importantly they

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • August 3, 2026
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the ... . The Internet became my playground, providing me with an endless array of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  kind of crazy to me  Earn your degree ✅ Somehow did this one… ... this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts and realized I have a lot of half-finished blogs, which is a bit tragic

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  a 360 degree view of the sunset. Someone was playing the violin nearby ... host of factors—but its time has finally come. Originally, Gosha was going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  past few weeks have been like, so some of these answers are super late ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... ." ------------------------------------- Shikhar wrote: "Should I put down that I have been member for four years of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... , why would you not go? If you haven't yet read either of Andi '25's

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  wasn't planned, especially because I still have six hours of exams to ... it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... installed) to download a licensed copy of Eudora. Also available at that software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... personalities. This is in part why one of my favorite websites this year has been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up that much of my time! My classes: 8.021 - Physics E&M; I ... recover from that. Or there was a very slight chance of it, but I just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  look at the variety of martial arts MIT has to offer as well. I really ... Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one ... the fourth episode of My Girl (one of the best asian dramas out there, w

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  best to welcome everyone.[/caption] There are a lot of things I expect ... stopping southeastern Ohio, West Virginia, and parts of Pennsylvania), I was talking with a group of teachers while setting up for the college fair

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions ... . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There ... return offer, I could take it, or I could try to look for some other job

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021