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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some ... doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of ... ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  ), watching movies in the lounge with my friends... maybe I'll even do some of ... and got a C in 8.02x (physics E&M). Apathy is bad.) Of course, I ... . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  said, here are some tips I'd recommend... In my circle of friends, as ... , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772 ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the ... fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  is में (encoded as \u092e\u0947\u0902). THING I WROTE: so how can we ... the world? civilization and government seem doomed in the face of ... ALBUM: i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... doesn't cure cancer. But it's a fascinating subject, which I doubt I can ... remember most about Cambridge. As for Biochemistry, I hope students in either

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14 ... cool, so i think i'll be alright. lots of calculus in both this class and ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... , unfortunately.  Ukulele: I got a ukelele in the second half of 2020 and really ... time. I bought a DSLR in high school but it was mostly unused. A lot of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... handful of years. So, in this post, I wanted to lay out the full context of ... much of junior and senior year, and leading into college"]I did in high

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  floor. From what I can read in Ms. Landlord, she seems like one of ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... after consulting most of the Chinese people I know in China, we decided to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... of my life. BWAAAAA!! But in the end, it was all good because I GOT ... ! Look what MIT can do." In all honesty though, it wasn't until I actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... . I want more school? Yes. Why you might ask? In my opinion, I ... bioengineering has been a good idea for me because I can take what I've learned and

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I ... lot of attention to MIT Admissions. I didn't read the blogs. I didn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... American sports, and I remember all the time he spent in front of the ... 't speak for this, since I've never lived in my fraternity house). Of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... amount of academic freedom I have. I’ve had a huge amount of choice in ... see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10 ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022