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• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  that all my future female companions will end up in all the different ... being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... arts. Your engineering friends, for the most part, will stay with you in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  sarcastically to my sister as she took a picture of me talking with my friends ... hours for no apparent reason. Hopefully my blurry photo does something to ... pre-determined station and then just stood around, chatting with friends

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  this. And I need quality time with quality friends. In my current ... your guesstimate is wrong. Every month up until my last semester, I was given a monthly allowance from my parents that was plenty for groceries

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  all my friends like Wenbo, Melissa, Mariia, Kylee, and Alice, and made ... ="Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  community. This means walking down the hallway to greet smiling friends, then ... lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my ... missing my family intolerable. But then I arrived in Cambridge, walked past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... friends and bonfires in true collegiate style. Wow, sounds perfect, like a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was ... friends, at 10 for my campus tour. I told Becca and Tim about this, and ... journey. My dad met me on campus on Friday afternoon, and after our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  feeling on the inside. As if goosebumps are embedded deep into my skin ... , I was unfazed. Not shocked at all. The first thought that came to my mind was again. It's happened again. And so I set my phone to the side

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  out of a hectic spring semester. One of my friends, Colin ‘16, took ... I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on LinkedIn. My pageviews are down 80% from last week, when they peaked at an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my ... friends from high school to catch up over a solid In-N-Out burger, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  . I told a bunch of my friends back home about it, and I think a lot of ... you happened to meet me over CPW and aren't my Facebook friend, friend ... Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my ... kinds of discussions (seriously- one of my best friends is so obsessed ... website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... be all the more valuable to us when we're all retired, our friends and ... experience of cooking a sixteen-dish Thanksgiving with ten college friends

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  . and i'm tired. this year i will leave mit, like many of my friends ... ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always ... , whether it's writing blog posts or talking to friends or walking outside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -- which, well, is not something to be proud of.  As my friend Steph C. '15 ... training, check out my friend (and elite mountaineer/Patagonia alpine ... MIT friends post on Facebook. He also is finding it increasingly awkward

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... encouraged. Without further ado, a window into the minds of my friends: The ... know about ytterbium How to impress your friends with homemade poi An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the weekend, like Walden Pond or Cape Cod. My friend Anthony '10 found ... , bicycles, skateboards, scooters, and walking. My favorite method, and perhaps ... . Getting to that fraternity or sorority party. Visiting your friends in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  phrases that I heard my friends toss casually around. I scraped by with a 66 ... -planning, promise-making, and more personal resolutions than all of my New Years ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  new city, away from many of my friends from high school, and I just got ... other international students, and I'll meet someone who'll be my friend ... the algebra class where I'll meet two of my best friends. And to think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020