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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  blah and that whole time of your life was basically a waste of time and I ... life--friends, clubs, music, art--all these other things that you like ... , your life, and your grades than they would in high school. I actually get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  in Shenzhen, but I had the best summer of my life this past year ... do it as well). That summer honestly changed my life in more ways than ... is a life-long process, and I'm confident in my ability to sustain my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  break your life, will shape your next four years. How different can two ... , octagenarian professor on paper, but in real life, he's a fun-loving guy with an ... they do not realize how complicated life is." The real world is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my life. Saturday. I'm helping Mikey prepare for the closing show. We ... ribs I'd ever had in my life. My hunger tore through me. The world went

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  life, and experience talking to people about college admissions. I re ... explanation, the essay prompt was "Life brings many disappointments as well as satisfactions. Tell us about a time in your life when you experienced

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... your life at all. But, high school, now we're talking big time. High ... you made determined your life, and where school shootings happened

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  good title. Oh well, that's life. I'll start off by saying that I ... ) Comparison of entry to the reader's life (Something like this happened to me ... life. MIT scares you into getting your work done sometimes, but it works

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... beginning to the two best days of my life. Even registration at something

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  poor little kid's life, you know? Wanna see pictures?! OK, so maybe you ... gang!" Anyway, one part is true- I did save a life. At least, I hope I saved a life. That would make the story a whole lot better... At 12:30 PM

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  of your life! And the rest of your life is going to be so much more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  /employment plans, or just life in general. Sometimes you have to make an appointment ... -- professors are great with the life advice and all, but sometimes they're not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  , anyway, take this for what it is: a snapshot in the life of a twenty ... of the most joyous occasions of my life, and one of the only times I ... "Schadenfreude", and I had never run more than 1.25 miles in my life, and that was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... MIT life. After CPW, I asked what students thought of it, and got some ... student life, I highly recommend Mitra's blog. Her posts very well represent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  some life events that have occurred? (marriage, children, education ... my life. And kayaking, and camping and hiking. That, ten years out ... academic life? Mostly supportive teachers, at least in the subjects that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  gravity, a first principle to found my life upon. I’m not sure when it ... ’s most sacred habitual life, a fly on the (kitchen) wall. A meal is ... between the ‘actual’ events of our life — we forget the miraculous, life

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  life as a South Dakotan hasn’t really changed yet. Alan: I agree with ... and full of life. I’m definitely a little sad that I haven’t seen Boston ... never expected to fail a test in my life, but we can cross that one off

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  life experiences. But also, there’s this constant flow of possibility and ... life achievement? “Voted Most Likely to Win the Lottery and Lose the ... fashion impacts my life as a Muslim woman! Usually, I put a good amount of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  will not be online to tweet about it. Because that’s not how real life ... is Romeo. If these two people met in real life—first of all, they ... real life factors would have kept them from ever even meeting. L: I think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  going to grow.”   Personal Life and Looking Ahead   In this ... huge amount of code that has totally simplified my life and saved hours ... ’ve burnt out working in film.”So my alternative life might've been in film

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025