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  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons ... represents a lot of what MIT has to offer and it has personally helped me grow ... one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  of time/money? they ask. As someone who they'd heard had participated ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores ... the tether of this place, there's something about these walls, something

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... part of MIT-Washington's orientation. [carousel image1="101766" image2

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  college acceptance, a job offer, moving into a new apartment. but a lot of ... overheard snippets of conversation between students that remind me of past phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  "]2.009.[/annotation]  After 2.009, nine of us continued working on the ... out how much of our name to capitalize. We’re digging into market research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I've done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are thinking about their fall schedules right now (I mean, a lot of freshmen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a summer of growth.  Internship Most of my summer was spent working as a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  MIT’s newest foreign language offered: Korean) I’ve covered most of ... of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... the sense of overwhelming relief. MIT has been home, sure, but it doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom. Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of ... finished redecorating my dorm room to constantly remind me of my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015