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• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... grateful for, even if I forgot it occasionally while in the frenzy of trying ... combinations of classes I could have chosen to take all at the same time, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  may have sent in one of those little response cards asking if I was ... better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the ... I can tell, they only make the problem more complicated than it ever

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  the circumstances of the world I grew up in that made me feel obligated ... perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the ... to discuss that in more detail, He can pull off wearing suspenders

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... of Financial Aid, and 9 current MIT students -- can now be viewed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  of the documentary, I can't control the camera. As a result, there were ... in touch with a lot of the folks I used to talk to back then to get ... I've mentioned in the past that I'm taking CMS.335 Short Attention

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  college, where it was slowly accumulating dust in one of my drawers since I ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... exciting Course 20 classes! ...well, sort of. I say "sort of" because ... limits of our knowledge every day - and that's why I'm so excited to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... everyone notices in a room full of people i agreed with the first part of ... in my life i understood what the narrator of looking for alaska must

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• 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 ... can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... later I went to a concert in Boston’s famous House of Blues, just a twenty

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  excellent study environment. I don’t mind working in corporate corners of ... As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might ... humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  there’s a level of raw truth in that statement. A kind of truth that I ... A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... their lives. The film in its entirety spews with messages of all kind

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the building blocks of my life are crashing down. I've found solace in ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as the yarn intertwines, my heart can mend too. I never realized I would

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i ... skill set is not that of someone who can make direct change.  i think i ... . the work of discovery shall carry on, but i can easily say that i have

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it ... . I eventually ended up joining and even now I can still see hints of ... accepted me for who I am in such a short amount of time. I really feel as if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... can study”. Reading this blogpost so far, I see that it’s kind of bleak ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can you mail me materials internationally?

  Due to increasing mail costs and in an effort to be environmentally-conscious, we no longer mail materials internationally, and we do very limited ... of awesome stuff happening at MIT!
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... Sunflower, an incubation bed that can be used in developing countries to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  senioritis in high school, but i think i have it now. i can think of many ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class ... senioritis in non-schoolwork things too. i don't feel like going to many of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022