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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  interested in and is rather visible in society. For the first time in my life ... .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  formula to one application - MIT is looking for more than that. The ... seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... the marine protected areas of South Caicos through the School for Field

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... -inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort ... , curated by the bloggers, to provide motivational music for you, dear reader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  I ensure that I've made the best out of my four years at MIT? Will I ... . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes ... can almost take it easy! But you can't just sit around waiting for June

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  of MIT Sloan: Fun Fact: the exterior of the building is lined by 155 ... on the light (from mitsloan.mit.edu). E62 is also the most energy ... Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  summer air. For a while, the heat is relentless and then, all at once, it ... with a friend. The first time is because the trains are broken down and we are too tired to wait. There is a heat wave going on and the air is

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community ... pics for proof At the end of her show (which was great, as expected), she came down in the audience and made fun of people for about twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at MIT. ...This might have also been possibly one of the best lectures I've ever had as well. The lecture was given by Professor Ernest Blanco from

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  could just go for the next best thing (and probably the more realistic ... Strips Food for the little guys Live Plants Salvinia minima Java ... roommate from last year for. It was kind of like building legos except the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  credit for free every year, and each page is 10 cents. we can refill it if ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... myself up for this SuperUROP, and they gave me the freedom to choose where

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  : I would like to not drop a class, and the best way for me to reach ... feels like the clock is ticking louder than ever and choosing classes ... , very, very messy process for[annotation note="this is also a last ditch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you ... ’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the ... was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  worked for the green power division that is installing renewable energy ... plant for the western U.S.; this project led to a future publication at the World Geothermal Congress, 2010. The host:  Enel is the

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  all change without warning. One thing I do know for certain is that the ... that’s been on everyone’s mind for the past week. The pre-wedding dinner ... in my head. I saw snow for the first time earlier this month. I woke

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  California.  I like wherever my family is best, although I don’t miss the ... A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... ’s usually referred to in the in-game dialogue) is kind of confusing

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  to-blog list, because it is truly special. But for the purposes of this ... , the SAT is good for something after all! Just as a side note, both of ...  standing) at the college forum, wearing our high school shirts and MIT caps for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  't stupid. Such is the case with my beloved backpack. I pack my life into my ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... , good for you. But the odds are very good that it won't work out as well

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  into my radio, I was happy about something radio related for the first ... been trying very hard to clean up the place for the past few weeks. It ... before. And just when the room is about to explode from the amount of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 25, 2023