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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  [annotation note='In addition to my handful of close Bentry friends, whom I also ... thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... when I was eleven), I lived in Georgia, in a suburb of Atlanta where my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a ... . Sometimes those people get in. More often (and truly, mostly because of class

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  are used day to day in the industry. I think the real point of MIT isn ... autonomous subteam, I realized a lot of it was thinking about how in class we ... has its risks, and part of what I learned during my time in college is

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack ... current (and future) MIT students, I suspect, I loved the BTTF movies as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  ? Everyone! Even those already accepted in Early Action.   When should I ... already out of school.   I think my counselor already did that ... . The Midyear Update has a maximum of 250 words. I know that’s not a lot

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... sororities, five of which are at MIT." Sororities are involved in academic ... for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  so lucky, but I did write a handful of rhymes for giggles on our bus ... 2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  's just a Q&A session, which I'll skip, in favor of you all asking ... Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... circadian rhythm out of whack. A few months ago, I was easily putting in ... pigeons who live in modern-day downtown Boston. I was really proud of myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.

  

  . :-) I just saw Omar '10 in the Infinite and he mentioned that housing ... all end up. I have a lot of blog-comment-questions to respond to - look for an entry to this effect in the next couple of days.

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  they are terrible. HOW CAN YOU HATE THIS FACE, PETEY!? All in all, the ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen ... ! Pictures of Food Deviled Eggs by Alex C. '15 Buffalo Chicken Mac &

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to ... were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually ... been a core course in mechanical engineering at MIT. Our own Dean of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laptop There should be a special place in hell for laptop thieves.

  

  I already turned in my thesis. ... dammit, my laptop and camera got stolen out of my room. Campus police has been thusfar unhelpful as usual in locating the perpetrators. These

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  in 8.02x (Physics: E&M) from freshman year. I had a lot of classes ... cheerleader, I a member of a group that is shockingly underrepresented in ... applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months ... first weekend of August. In the meantime, I've somehow taken over 138 GB ... videos. I put together a short tour of my dorm and room in Zürich with the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the ... post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss ... now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020