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  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies and interests ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying ... releases, huh? In other news, I have found my long-lost twin, Dora. You have

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  disadvantages, it's worked pretty well in the past week or so. Friday night, Adam ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I ... who were strong in other areas. I was really just trying to say that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  -degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... information on registration procedures. In all programs, students must
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In ... ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... schoolers, prefrosh, and people in general. And in case at any point it feels ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret ... anywhoo, in Taiwan there's this moderately popular TV show called Da Xue ... in Taiwan with different majors and they discuss a bunch of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  masse in Cambridge, and the prefrosh excitement around me was so palpable ... ’t participate in it, but it’ll always be there if you want your social life to be ... getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly humanities and arts scene, particularly in disciplines like comparative media

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation & ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and giggles )"]6-9[/annotation] and minoring in [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised ... experience I have had at MIT, if not in my life. It is hard both academically and personally, and it is hard in ways that are difficult to discuss

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I ... date. I had assumed that these took place in like February or March, but ... behind me, like when you're walking in the evening and someone who walks

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or two. We were in the same project group for DEECS, the former Course 6 ... seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader ... yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change in my perception of what makes me happy. This all sounds Hallmark card

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015