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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  at chemistry or biology, or a physics genius when compared to my ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... tons of paths to success. People often go to community college or a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  discovered one last time I got lost in Camberville going to or from an alum ... student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  occasionally law school, looking for places to live in their new found location ... . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology major to go to graduate school in biology, but you should have at least ... D program. Master's degrees don't mean much in biology or other sciences

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea ... , or your computer will probably implode. I'll have everything back to ... working to save Venice, especially from stuff like this... ...in St. Mark

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  .   4   I have a quote and poem to share. quote "In the ... , reminds me that hope needs no reason one can listen to the tune of it, or ... content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  next to one of my housemates or we laugh over some dumb MIT in ... closed to everything except essential travel. (Which included "work or ... foot to enter the US? Was I really moving to an apartment in Boston, to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  's all year and still happily gone off to graduate school in the fall. At ... being the same style or something. Campus tends to feel very home-y and ... ! What's not to love? 2. Overlooking lobby 7 from the second or third floor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... humans sometimes like to define ourselves in ways we don’t actually have to ... like to define ourselves with not so great numbers, such as our GPA or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in ... way, no stakes or day drinkers or monetary gain), legs sprinting one in ... spring up in response to your feet hitting the ground. You feel joy, pure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  to literally go around campus, or around ⊥IW in this case, and use ... accidentally trapped herself in a perpendicular universe, and we needed to power ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well ... Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without ... director and I had to email Chris, who was in the middle of committee still

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... enough to participate in both in very different ways... SK Late Night ... nd largest contributor to Alzheimer's Disease research in the US. With

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  at MIT, you don't have to major or minor in the arts to be fully immersed in arts courses or the creative community. Students of any major can ... MIT students to decorate their private rooms or shared residence hall
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... sounds incredibly daunting, and to some people, even a little crazy or ... to do it. If you're a junior or sophomore, that's great, you have

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... . It's really hard transitioning to San Francisco from Boston. In Boston ... across the bridge to my house. I don't feel in danger, the public transit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped. ... CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  , making it back to MIT around 11 or 12 o'clock, just in time for class on ... take a trip to Hasbro's world headquarters, conveniently located in ... . The show is claimed by the promoters to be the largest toy trade show in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their additional documents via Naviance, SOCIR, or other methods. Applications will
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  demonstration in Solid State Chemistry. I returned to Random Hall in a numb state ... in my room escalated back to numbers that looked like my test scores in ... , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008