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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... for the semesters to follow, I can't help but look at the path ahead as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got ... a big group of new cheer recruits, but I am just thankful that today

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the core team that helped set the early cultural conditions and priorities ... prize utility, practicality, serendipity, exploration, and fun. What you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  staring wide-eyed with smiles plastered on their face being carted from free ... he actually swung back and forth continously! Meanwhile on the other ... . They can have a similar temperament. But the true cremé de la cremé of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  wealth of activities on the IAP calendar with my busy schedule of turning ... night, so I guess it was a jorb well done. A pox on Jeremy and Javier for killing Laura and I (the two inspectors, no less) on their first turn as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  helping us is extremely nice. The peach boba is almost like a slush. It’s different but I love it.  We decide to go to the Barnes & Noble we saw on ... teaches Bhuvna some dance moves as Neil works on his [annotation note="6

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  . Students spent the weekend exploring the city, attending workshops, and ... asked students to share their reflections on their background, their weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  ="Residential Exploration, better known as REX, is a multi-day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... create our own culture.” - Lisa “I don't even live on M3! It was a twist

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... a certain group on thefacebook. And then I realized that thefacebook ... 't usually work on weekday afternoons: packages come in! And then you have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  Hi world, it’s me!!! I haven’t been writing on the blogs much because ... on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... dangerous activity. I lived in DC the summer after my freshman year here, and ... ask if he could please get on the internet and find where the subway

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  Principle. A few blocks later, you're dodging taxis in Chinatown and on the ... money and stuff. In all seriousness, I lived entirely on free food for my ... the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... roles, gender stereotypes, and sexuality. We will especially focus on ... impact that "Sex and the City" and other media have had on current college

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  wonderland as I'm reading applications today, and it makes me feel calm, very ... States, and how it related to the promotion of unity and understanding on the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  this post: Birth to ??? 5th Grade?: Whatever's on the radio/whatever my ... memory of my first ever video I've ever watched on YouTube being the Club Penguin Stranded on Rockhopper Island series and as promo for the series

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  sandwich guys at La Verdes, the people who hand out Vitamin Water on 77 Mass ... reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  process so that everyone working on the book, including myself, was aware of ... ask for an extra week), I am proud to say that we are completely on time (pending nothing apocalyptic happens in the meantime...knock on wood). That

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... you give me a little information on its orchestra and chamber music ... or even some larger liberal-arts type schools, it helped to know that a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  put more cards in your deck and earn gold that can be spent on shops ... amount of block you have. One of the biggest lessons I learned in ESP is ... was really happy when I got a problem on an HMMT test, and yeah, people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021