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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  the first day of GEL. The Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is ... the past (courtesy of high school marching band) is the fact that you ... optimize the design of the bridge. Now, I’m a news editor for The Tech (MIT

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  students for the MIT directed reading programs, where we read through ... and new experiences. I know that I will create the conditions for my ... message to that person looking back, and it is this: go find the magic

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  . ---------------------------------- 12:45PM Everything is ready and we are just waiting for the postal ... Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... and then call the post office for pickup. So to summarize, we're on

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  various ensembles, as I imagine many of you will. Some of the best musical ... playing with (and for) other people. This dream took many forms when I got ... in an a cappella group for most of college as well as college choir

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its ... backstory is that in EC, the singles are big and the doubles are small. (I ... ) are able to take some of the wood and reuse it for their own ends. When

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  my finalist trip is now my UROP mentor. I am very grateful for the ... students and faculty throughout the spring semester. Applications for the ... the 2019 THINK team saw in my proposal but THANK YOU for believing in me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  can I do to help my chances? The best thing you can do is simply to stay ... will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any ... admitted students. While it is true that we haven't taken anyone from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  shirt. Did they know who he was? Did they understand the principles for ... . Enough about me, though. The point is that I’d grown to be quite ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  inscription "Made in England." For Mitra, here is the Iran bear. For Ruth ... Prep through ESP, here is the quite vibrant Georgia bear. For fans of ... edges out the US and UK for "most stereotypical bear." Nevertheless, it is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... out, that ended up being one of the best decisions I've ever made. I got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  , however, the important thing to note is that for the past two years, I have ... for me.” At this point in the blog, I would be stopping myself, because ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  permanent restoration but is still open to the public for service and ... exception is Döner, which is essentially just shawarma/gyros. The best one I ... [annotation note="Global Teaching Lab"]GTL[/annotation] program for the first

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  's subtitle ("And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon") is completely inappropriate, I will be very impressed ... fact to obtain one of the best vantage points of the eclipse. So, uh

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  officially registered for 8.01, but took special seminars and the 8.012 final ... 5.12 Organic Chemistry I (one of the best classes I have taken at MIT ... .05.) 21W.778 Science Journalism (I won $350 from the writing department for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... World where each area of the park is a different country to showcase that ... 'lightning lane' for specific rides as opposed to the normal ride. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  memory of visiting MIT for the first time is one I hold dear to my heart. I ... the best of it, and throughout my childhood they took my older sibling ... . One of my oldest memories is asking my parents to bring me back the real

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  does the same thing with magnetic flux. For example, capacitors ... represents how magnetic flux flows through the original circuit! Again, this is ... particular duality is especially important for me because I do research with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby ... . The inside is magnificent, and the history is quite interesting. All of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  upon the Fahrenheit hill–10˚F is the perfect discretization for ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... -grilled hotdogs, and cold Capri-Sun, where we'd wait for the family next door to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  100% sure this is the right school for you but you have external ... rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015