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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  group also picked up whatever viral assemblage has been partying in my ... to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I ... never sent me a postcard. Notice that even in my formative years, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  : recycling! So, welcome to "Flashback: Part 1," where my older and wiser senior self will laugh herself silly over my less wise freshman self. So, who am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle school backpack, slipping them under the desk to friends during class. So ... saying "that's the way my life worked out". [annotation note="This is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  do something to celebrate Pi Day. FRANK: Oh my gosh, it is Pi Day! I ... to the Fest right now. GUSTAV: I’ve been busy figuring out my joint ... , and we’ll burn off mass too, so– GUSTAV: My beautiful philosophy

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  , which spanned floors 1-6 of the museum. Here are some of my personal ... seemingly arbitrary fits and starts of aging and the passing of friends and ... for an entire hour until the pads of my feet were aching, absorbed into

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  Workshop  After meeting with my advisor, we agreed that I would take three ... these classes. 6.006 was my droppable class. I was skeptical because I don ... hour period. Every time, I planned to schedule my time well and every

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  last minute. My black hole this week was 2.12: Introduction to Robotics ... -advised the night before.  Also, the other team is no longer your friends ... lessons learned as the semester has been winding down. My biggest takeaway

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... helpful academic or financial aid event, go for it. One of my most helpful ... awesome professors at the Math Department Open House my CPW. And you’ll be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  period. Naturally, my friends and I decided to go. We walked in early and ... from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12. I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  , the Saferide Cambridge West shuttle (after 6 pm), and as of late, my ... doesn't use just your feet) is your friend here. There's so much ground ... Hopper, nearby. My wing in Next House actually went there right at the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Action admits heard the good news -- two of my friends from Wayland High ... concert put on my MIT's Logarhythms, the all-male a cappella group -- more ... ever really escapes "technical difficulties", at any level (in my most

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  classes, but not capable of taking four science classes (friend: "why are ... jewel that no one ever talks about. For reference, my four HASS classes ... this semester I would have completed my HASS requirements for graduation

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  providers were incompatible with [annotation note="it was a Huawei"]my phone ... family or friends before you acquire your own SIM card. If you are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  fancy. But in my case, I mostly ran around and took pictures (as displayed ... to coordinate with our different friend groups to get pictures together

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  everything, and his chem friend was barely scraping through. It then became ... . When I first came to MIT - having never stepped foot on campus before my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  -Online.de My favorite pieces were the cube pictured above and these neat ... process take over your life. Remember to spend time with your friends (or

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  and surf your friends' profile pages for 14 hours each day. (I know, I ... yourself. AND you can read one of my favorite books of all time, The Brief

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  going to Cambridge, where there is a friendly rivalry between MIT and ... math teacher in my freshman year who had been an engineer, but had become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  ? Nanda told the Boston Globe: "I like my sleep," said Nanda, a research ... people from MIT and Friendly Planet on four expeditions to Bhutan, a small

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006