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  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  favorite thing I’ve done at MIT. I got what I wanted to get out of it, and ... I found out that a good handful of my SSP friends at MIT were applying ... enjoyed and gotten a lot out of."]CS degree here.[/annotation] Getting over

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least ... appreciate the breadth of MIT offerings for athletes and beyond. The main ... ropes and trapeze—I made it up and out! At the end of the day, the group

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad ... freshman, because there's a lot of downtime, so I was pretty much stuck at

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

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  'd encounter "only at MIT."  To do that, we did about a year of research ... offering in-person information sessions and tours at this time. We hope to do ... 3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... Sierra Nevadas," he replied, with sort of a snooty glance at the stewardess ... alumnae-turned-astronomers at various institutions. I e-mailed all of them

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being surprised at what this entry was about and where it came from. Er.. let ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , when they offer me tomato salad at dinner, they have no idea that I ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in ... community, hard at work pursuing projects, bright and energetic. One of the ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the video conferencing setup, with two of us at MIT, two of us at ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www ... entrepreneurial path. He was present at the creation of Thinking Machines, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  best (and I think succeeded at) renormalizing my expectations of grades ... social, and partly a function of being a nerd at a nerd school surrounded ... other MIT students."]this degree[/annotation]. I think some of it comes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  summer roommate from Bombay) enjoy a sampler of Belgian beers at one of the ... 't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels ... the Thalys website for "summer offers"--you could get fast connections

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  last rule helps break out of that stress. Every weekend, I take at least ... my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim ... . Two weeks later, I was at my first ever ultimate frisbee tournament. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... joke that maybe still exists at MIT: "Our tests are like, 'The density of ... -threatening hemorrhage in a matter of minutes at delivery (which is why it was once known

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  financial aid at Connecticut College. "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I ... students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... . a lot of people at mit walk with their hands in their pockets, either ... , since most buildings at mit and in the rest of the world have fairly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... people nerding out about all sorts of topics. It starts at CPW when you ... ’s why I’ve called at least half of my professors by their first names, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  almost from scratch. After collapsing, exhausted, at the end of the long ... , man. You turned out alright. At the culmination of this penultimate ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011