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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  . Dan and I showed up in lab to find a sleep-deprived Jared doing busy ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  appearance: 5.07 - Introduction to Biochem (MWF 9:00 AM) I was like a ... wanted to take a biochem class. I might seriously take [annotation note ... feels dissociative to be in this class. I feel like biochem has a lot of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand ... think about this quite a lot (though I'm certain you can find a part of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... schedule Next in my planner you'll find a page for each month of the semester

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  , gotten some lab experience at UC Davis trying to develop a fungal ... major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech ... . When I woke up, I decided that the best way to find out what I really

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  MIT bloggers are planning to participate. If you have a blog, you should ... . -------------------------------- Responses to questions: BrittanyL, a '13 hopeful asked a really good question ... wanting to acknowledge it as a possibility) I know that a percentage of this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka ... finding them, we did have a good time looking at the math, history, English ... another minibus to Manda Hill, a strip mall that lots of ex-pats frequent. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  . Already, I find myself missing Boston and MIT, and I'm looking forward to the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  to the Tex-Mex you find back home. Oh and also had a real job!  At ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... optimization. Often, you have to make judgement calls of whether to launch a

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

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  find them. There's power in numbers, and there's a lot of good left to be ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in ... with the last frame missing. The instruction was to write a new ending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  or a floor lounge to find 10+ people anxiously watching everything, and ... passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games ... school. But when you move to Boston, it's really hard not to be a Red Sox

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing ... never could really find the time to do in college, nor really had the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan ... -year students to request a gap year up until this past Monday. When those results

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  to find a path that provides all individuals the opportunity to serve ... spurred a faculty task force that produced a set of recommendations to ... Education at MIT, sent a letter to the ROTC community regarding the recent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  Friday: GEL, 7.03, UROP, Clarinet Lesson, find food to eat (my frat has a ... power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents ... !), risk managing a party, having to take care of myself, running errands

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023