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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I ... this library, because I'm somewhere in Texas, or Jersey, or California

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  . When I was in high school, our English teacher wanted us to write essays ... capital (as her aunt suggests she do), she is refusing to participate in ... bearable for these people to live in a socially stratified city, with all the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  not see it pay off in the way you expect, or hope. It's very painful ... this mistake infinitely many times in the past, continues to do so now, and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... . Eventually, this lead me to MIT. In all these ways, that summer program opened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  assignment asks us to examine ethical questions raised by, and in the context ... exceptionally relevant article by Turkle in Wired Magazine, and I encourage you to ... to conduct yourself in a legal, moral manner away for the first time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... important to this story.) Someone called us about thirty seconds in and said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest ... looking to hire MIT students. Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway ... to catch up on questions and other business here in the blog over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  milk. The fermented horse milk seemed to be a hit or miss among travelers ... schools in an American or British format. Sure, there were plenty of schools ... would talk amongst themselves or ask the teacher a question in Russian or

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help. Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that ... : This is mostly due to working with upperclassmen in Office Hours. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  need to decide which classes to take and where that will lead me. That in ... in Mumbai to get a rare opportunity in project planning on a major oil investment. Better yet I had to make my decision in a week. Everyone deals

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  anticipated) Why you're coming to MIT Short Answer (250 words or less ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... how to respond or won't be able to keep from tearing up. The follow ... tonight, just to offset the danger of crying in favor of crinkly laugh lines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand ... When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the ... one day to this place. If you feel compelled to help, I've been looking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  balloons to be amorphous or irregular     I had to first ... so she keeps live worms in her room. I really wanted to see them burrow ... allowed to use the ants living in East Campus. The worms looked really cool

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to fill in the blanks of grammatical exercises or to write contrived ... based. Most of the activities in class are structured around stories or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  reason that they keep changing to Power Rangers: Zeo or Power Rangers ... live octopus in South Korea or caber tossing in the Scottish highlands ... that, but Shana instantly replied, "In a spelling bee!" referring to our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read ... ’t have the wherewithal to jump back in to writing. I don’t know if people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  essay, pset style questions, or past exam problems. The goal is to finish ... have time to grade it and provide feedback. What actually happens in the ... intense in that they expect a lot of you or they can be really into the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those ... proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty ... . I was startled to see one of the graduate students in my group there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012