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  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it's next to the Prudential Center.) Admission is free if you have a Student Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... MIT. It just didn't happen here. It's a curse and a blessing. The ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a ... until the day is over. For me, laughter is the best therapy (fortunately ... made me laugh over the past few days. Brace yourself for insight into my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know ... 've accidentally cooked enough food to feed a small army 28% I think the best way to ... 2 result I built a thing! AND I'm baking 0.56% of the time, dessert

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... Hopper Celebration is the largest conference for women in computing ... . When I applied for the TechX scholarship, I was really excited about

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  ."]brass rat[/annotation] but also the halfway point of MIT. Obviously, as a result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... really symbolic, not only for me but for a lot of MIT students. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  would sacrifice an afternoon nap for a one-mile walk across the Harvard ... was made more memorable by the following episode: (Jeanne and I spot a ... in my physics classroom for a late-night review session. Somehow, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  skills, qualities, and experiences that should make for a really exciting ... Tomorrow, I expect MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, will publish ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to ... promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... just wait and wait but i am getting too heavy for my hope but the stench

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... from September to May with a summer break, the Cambridge school year ... breaks for tea. Everything in the building stops and everyone from the

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  as a freshman in high school. She is me at the core. She is enough to ... :28 p.m., you probably experienced a barrage of feelings. These might include pain for being rejected, joy for being accepted, anxiousness for

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... down a few loose goals for the summer - read more books, write more ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  , as a last ditch effort, my mom registered me for fencing classes at the ... with attending a tiny high school anymore. I love MIT for the people and ... watching a high school sports game in person, actually. As for the dance, it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts ... best characterized as a damped sine wave. I had really high highs at the ... matters worse, my grades took a dive). By the time thanksgiving rolled

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  pain. I just want to give the world a giant fuck you for the what its ... Coco; a full, encapsulating, body-shaking sob. Even minutes after the ... grandparents' dingy silver car and bracing myself for the nervewracking car ride

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice. There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... admissions or read applications for a living (though I did ask someone who does

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  , and ended the semester with new ideas for my existing stories and a ... for a semester.  The ‘25s are really nice, and I got to spend time ... with the 4-lb hammer now. projects  I had a few ideas for personal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance ... :                                                                                           View from the second floor:     Splash is a day-long event in which ... something, I strongly recommend doing a program through the MIT Educational

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The ... events helped prevent its spread. In a situation like this, even the "best

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  . However, over the last, say two years or so, I have seen a dramatic decrease ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018