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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter with Alan Guth? If you don't, quick synopsis: my section hadn't received ... wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  my original bus to Kyoto, and despite the motto I'm currently trying to ... had such a high fever I couldn't make it back from campus to my dorm. So ... were standing directly over it. Only the policeman knew, and my brain was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my ... . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan ... like Droopy the Dog's cheeks. My legs feel like cement blocks. I slump

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  back and paint my new room, have fun doing REX stuff, see all my old ... , which is always sad. So here it is, my attempt at some sort of summary of my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my alarm clock) to find that the power adapter askew enough that my laptop

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  Here is something that always makes me laugh: My sister (a Harvard ... sit together on my mom's desk at work. Obviously it proves that her ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Steve Kelch '08 as my running mate. There were three tickets. We lost to ... Cabral '07. I have a ridiculous expression on my face. I don't photograph ... my feelings on where we are and where we need to be going, and why

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play ... my first and last name.) Melotaur has brought me much happiness and ... into place. April 27 (I know because it's recorded in my journal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  much Law and Order this summer?) In my various unofficial capacities as ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... make people unsure of their own merits. But today, I realized that my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  my MIT experience. This semester I did all of my psets early. I ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman fall I made the mistake of solving problems with my study group without

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  Hello - my name is Michael. You may know me as Snively. Or you may ... derived during a lecture and my brain almost popped It's been four years ... since you last heard from me. In June 2022 my second son was born, named

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... still my favorite album and I stand by the claim that it has no skippable ... always loud.  You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi  I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  thorough post and also writing it required grappling with my existential dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my ... Friday nights, so Saturdays are my ‘off’ days; I get up around 9, waste a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  about my experience as a transgender person at MIT. The one thing I just ... embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked ... cutting my hair for me after it had gotten particularly wild who didn't make

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  surprising revival. I’ll also share my experience going to two different ... attend because of my gap year. But first, some history: MIT began its ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... it felt like all my friends and everyone and their mom had gotten a ... people threw around went right over my head. I felt too inadequate for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... because I wanted to capture all of my experiences, good and bad, and as it inched closer to a month since my last post obviously I couldn’t fit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... of my robotics team. I joined the team as a freshman because my eighth ... awards that FIRST offers its teams. I worked my butt off, and the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high ... four of my classes have p-sets, and one of them, 24.900, has p-sets AND ... my eyes to the intricacies and mind-blowing consistencies of language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  deriving amusement from my ridiculous, self-indulgent bit. It all started ... more, with the exception being my friends from out of town who came to visit a couple of weeks in. As shaky and new as it was, my status as a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025