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• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  meet seems to have figured out how to keep it under control, and ... these thoughts!) I guess that's how it is here -- most people at MIT seem ... barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  Thoughts on September: Me, now that it's October: It feels weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited ... submitted: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hope they publish it. These days, I spend about half

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... semester than in the fall. And it's not because I was less involved in student activities, or spent less time with friends, in the spring. It

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  Imagine: you arrive on campus. It’s awesome. Breathtaking ... greatly. It is a special MIT gem. Talk to your family. Stay in touch with ... ’t overheat with excitement. Orientation moves at light speed, and it’s easy to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found ... them! Nobody had a good answer to how they ended up where they are, but ... . There isn't one path to a goal—just a general movement towards it. The

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... knew it was going to be cold. I had packed my tried-and-true winter gear ... pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... of the ocean. The wind had a refreshing coolness to it, and as we sat

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure, measure frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  adventure, but then again, it's college, am I supposed to expect anything else ... of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a ... do have a couple offers already so that's exciting. It'll be pretty

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  "everything" has just changed as the word "change" has: it now means "no change") so quickly that it literally surpasses my belief, charges right past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to ... psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... aerial trapeze, in that they are both solid objects hanging from ropes. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that ... We've just launched a new MITAdmissions video. It's called "MIT Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ^2). She asked if I'd mind showing her around the 'tvte, as it seemed like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... how cool and entertaining everything was I remember her looking me dead

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Technology has plans for world domination through weather control. It is our ... Hunt is underway, and for our team, it's so far, so good... more updates ... ... congrats to those who got it! COOKIE MONSTER by Marcy Levey, Brian Tivol

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  arising tomorrow. "Hi, it's nice to meet you - the gravitational force ... good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a ... -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... ….why did I come here? 1. tO eXplOrE It is often said that “college is the ... hear it all the time from MIT alumni (I work as a techcaller yipee

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  is awesome but it doesn't match up to authentic Taiwanese cuisine ... back to Next House. Here's what Next House looks like right now. It ... (incidentally, the existence of ice puddles for some reason surprised me--it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a dream you’re reminded of after waking—how the back-and-forth of our voices ... of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... obstacle that has affected my educational journey?” However, it was asked in ... violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019