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  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  me warm in an entirely unknown and frightening Boston winter. I was in ... , a boy in an MIT sweatshirt nervously fiddled with his water bottle ... into an Uber. It was my first time in an Uber, and the interior of this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  lectures with everyone in the class, and then every other day, have an hour ... basis? Probably around 5, in an hour of class. This includes questions ... mainstream classes in an entire semester? 0. You get a lot more comfortable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  interests and passions at MIT, and I'm so excited for everyone to see it in ... snake, an axolotl, a shark, some parakeets hanging out, penguins in ... excited for the story wall in particular to represent another generation of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... biology, you can sprinkle in some more bio. If you want to be an engineer ... complete INDEPENDENCE. At least for now, I'm happy to stay in the kitchen a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  online for over a year i’d have spent more time at in-person club meetings ... an excuse for inaction or mediocrity; these are just statements about ... means loving the world enough to be grateful for every moment i spend in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  go adventuring before second semester starts in February) for an ... I've got for now. What are your questions? Shoot me an email (ask ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  Guildenstern with an inflatable pool toy, swims around for a while, and then ... since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... picnic in Boston Common. Last year, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  meetups with Mathcampers in town for hunt. Then I locked in on web.lab again ... preheat the oven. In those last five days, I made all the art I planned for ... station chic) lost my family's luggage. We ended up spending hours in the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an ... enough!): Stayed in bed staring at the ceiling, thinking about life, for ... Actually read books! Ones I hadn't read before! Coded for fun, in languages

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  mine. I don't really need to say anything for her to know that I have, in ... Hi there. Today was an incredibly long day. Like running back and forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  finally An Old Person, relatively speaking. Work As mentioned in my ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT ... hall in East Campus for all four years, including preorientation, and two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  animal noises. For dinner, we went to another [annotation note="Is an ... If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  an impromptu workshop in a group room at Hayden Library quickly turned ... and a cupcake for doing my laundry rappelling cooking an edible meal ... years before me. In my case, that’s 10th grade, right before COVID hit

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an ... when there's an exam. Exam's tend to just randomly appear in weird parts ... . Now, in an ideal world, there would be no PSET due the week of a test

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  thousand? Five thousand? For reference, in 2017 they had 7,500 in a single ...  organized. In the beginning, it’s a quick single file. It’s not like a line for a ... can schedule an appointment for a shot at MIT Medical by calling their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a few days had driven my mom into incoherence. I received an enigmatic voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  for two years: briggs field, flat and green and fine but boring. the sun ... and tests swirl in my head. they make me forget what's outside of campus ... into complacency but i have to finish these things swirling in my head so

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  fear of starting a flame war in my email inbox. For the average St. Louis ... for an icebreaker, I almost ended my sentence after saying “I’m Teresa ... was the guy in my grade who I was chummy with for a brief while, before

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022