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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  in AP Calc BC, and was kind of let down when I got a 98 on my third ... how unique the UROP program was until I started talking to my friends at ... contact the lab.  For example, I got my current UROP (in Langer Lab at the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  versions.) Ominous weather is my favorite kind of weather.  =) My UROP is ... be going very well, but I might change my mind by the end of the day. Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  can tell these aren't my photos because of how awesome they look. Full ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... . In one notable example, I started to click with my CPW host, who hails

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on ... hundreds of people who had since became my classmates and my friends, and now ... (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my ... painted my weaponry black (leaving the barrel orange, of course, so as not

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... I am having some second thoughts. Concerning my peers. When I applied ... far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the nature of my comments comes not so much from a lack of enthusiasm as a lack ... recall my 7.06: Cell Biology final exam, where one of the problems involved

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My ... inconvenient truth about my internet access. Namely, there are only three ways I ... sustained flood damage at some point. Still, if there's one thing that my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... , write my name on those tests, walk out, and still graduate. I'm still ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  Activities Today I am inspired by Christina (my favorite off ... and fulfilled. Jessie does three, to my knowledge: student government ... . I never felt like it negatively affected my grades or studying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of ... ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... , good enough. Then I visited Dot, my across-the-street neighbor, and she ... 'm worth $1,680,000, so you know you can respect my opinion. Extremely Loud

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  Last weekend,  I went camping with my living community [annotation ... with my living community :D. Saturday We left in the afternoon, driving ... reach. But my [annotation note="Physics"]Course 8[/annotation] friend

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston ... , I can talk to MORE PILOTS and collect PILOT TRADING CARDS???? My nerd

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... to the bit. (p.s. this is also what I want my signature French fries to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  the winter of my sophomore year, LaVerde's permanently closed its doors ... Concord Market. I thought my on-campus grocery store dreams were over: no ... on test day, no more yummy snacks to gift my soccer teammates. I had

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  phylogenetics. Put that down on my Wikipedia page [annotation note="jk please don ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my friendships to be beautiful, I don’t even know what that means. I want my friendships to thrive on mutual compassion, trust, honesty; my best friend from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  don't A: ok cool A: oh god B: what A: my life is just so insignificant A: like, i've been spending so much of my life just A: doing nothing ... think my contacts fell into my eyes B: so why do you hate yourself so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022