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  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  , since I'm finally moving into my fraternity's house in Boston. Of course ... Skullhouse. As for Junk? Well, most of it is headed for the trash can. I don ... it can be donated to charity. In addition to the student volunteers I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ), but I should mention this option just in case. Most grads (I think) of ... knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  applied to attend West Point's summer training. I was placed in a company of ... Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... are in the program. You can do the minimum 3 times per week PT (physical

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  think it's the oddest thing. Some of my friends in materials and I ... [by Mirat Shah '08] Sorry, I will try and write more regularly in ... coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of ... retrospect, I was proud of what I had turned in. Four years of high school ... .) Every once in a while—assuming I could actually discern the identity of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  I can call Sicilia's and order pizza? (What?! It's the staple of the ... Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I just cooked large amounts of angel hair pasta with ground beef in black

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... 't really big in that sort of stuff. Rather than be intimidated, I took this ... helpful in our math problem set group. Later, I learned that he was the top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find admissions statistics?

  If you're looking for admission statistics that's a good sign because we love stats too! You can learn the number of applicants, admitted students, and SAT/ACT score ranges for admitted students on the Admissions
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached ... rest of your life. you can feel like you want to lie in bed all day. you ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  result in the crashing of the internet and the explosion of my computer. I ... the best example of this would be my first few days in my Chinese I ... will speak English in. Ever since, I have not heard a word of English in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  , at the end of the summer, I still had a bunch of art in my apartment ... In February, I interviewed Holly H. ’18, about her art gallery in the ... you ask. I couldn’t think of what to call it, and so it became desperate

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  , even in the simple things. So, I try not to let the little moments of ... rest of my life. But, I think that can be reframed as “I’m giving myself ... curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I submit a maker portfolio?

  The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their projects that require creative insight, technical skill, and a hands-on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory Board
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput ... psets can actually teach you stuff that you'll need to know in the real

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  school in a city that is a hub of so much intellectual activity. (And I don ... I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  (and can still find) in these pages. Now that I have seen so many more ... you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I ... performances of Shakespeare plays in the Boston Common that you can watch for ... of power tools and construction. I’m not handy in the slightest, but at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House ... unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007