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• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... distinct meanings: to be made callous and indifferent, or to become sturdy ... struggled, not always successfully, to resist the pull of the former in favor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... need to be just as innovative in public policy, just as innovative in our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them ... learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  joys of MIT. In actuality, I have much, much more to say - but for now ... . All right, I'm out. Best of luck to you all with finals, APs, IBs, or ... Oh, hey, the weekend's here. Awesome. In other news, the last full

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  dry. Suffice it to say I was not expected to participate in sorority ... I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a comfortable location, preferably on a couch or bean bag. Turn on "The Last Ship ... to turn in psets. Leaving the lounge at bedtime is the hardest part of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT ... to young'uns about what an awesome opportunity they have in VI-A. You ... here in Cambridge, MA, somewhere else in the US, or international. Course

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East ... UROPs. Don't be stuck working for a lab you don't want to work for or ... asked me to write down what results I remember, or if you asked me to work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  March 27th, i got to experience spreak in all its glory! it was absolutely ... —it was great seeing all the '22s who used to live in Burton Conner, along ... immediately ubered to the airport with two people in my group who also live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... special occasion. The place I went to last week was Ganko Ittetsu in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but ... to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new ... to be in this post!   $picy     Happy New Year! Hope ... It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... were labeled one thing or another. It was very, very fun to write. The ... —eternal gratitude to those who have believed in me and supported me even when life was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  readers, to bring you entertainment and distraction in your final hours ... college stories to cat applications, or some amalgamation of those, and she ... shouldn't check for typos, or careless basic grammatical mistakes. It is to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... , who’s to say I couldn’t do well in other competitive pursuits? If I tried, I could probably get a top-tier internship in software or

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... in groups of two or three. The presentations are super chill; we mostly ... their music in the Beatles' earlier albums. With this, I was able to gain

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  save their income to retire in their 30s or 40s), but it seems to be ... in our power to prevent something bad from happening without thereby ... , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or ... time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... sending in, and truly appreciate the time and effort you have put in to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010