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  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  In America Site. The idea is that every throws in their ideas, then ... spoke with the last agent. There is no hope for you." "Oh, you can standby ... -offer discounted hotel room when this whole mess is your fault. (And don't blame the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  know MIT is the right place for me. Inside everyone here, there's a ... undergoing for the past months: "It is MIT related because you are blogging it ... MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  increased, while "real" adults donning excessive amounts of MIT apparel ... the Oregon Ducks. He is hilarious. He is a ham. He owns me at ... , Drive-Ins, and Dives (which is one of the few things we disagree on - I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  that has always resonated with me is that "we are what we celebrate." Celebrity is fundamentally heroic; even our most tragic celebrity narratives (#winning) still construct the archetypes we pattern ourselves after. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind is upon us. My last final is tomorrow morning (exactly 12 hours from ... morning, but I'm prepared! And, as is customary, here is my music

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the ... are moving in different directions. The incompleteness is uncomfortable and makes me feel ugly, like the way a bird is pretty and a baby bird is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you ... people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many reasons, not the least of which is emails like this: From: Mollie Burgoon To

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  One of my biggest plights with MIT is how, since they kinda know that ... most talked about is campus dining/food. MIT has historically been a food ... , skipping Next is understandable. When it's nice out? I think some (most) MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  ever blog about is architecture stuff - but who am I kidding - it ... inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... before MIT Early Action applications were due, rather than give my own

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even ... people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... an MIT woman. I'll say right up front -- although I do understand why

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  everything. MIT is a place full of "unknown unknowns" -- things you don't even ... with those people along the way. 2 - MIT is really good at surprising ... into this strange, strange, wonderful cultural object that is MIT. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black girl from Chicago studying at MIT. She will be taking Tony Stark's place ... rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more ... than the actual Olympics, but here's the official tally: 22 MIT alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... MIT student body is composed of about 55% male and 45% female students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  so what if we did? There are worse things to be. But anyway, MIT is ... likes to admit people, not cardboard cutouts. Q. I heard MIT is super-competitive and cutthroat. A. Actually, MIT is a very collaborative place, and it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  six classes a semester, and it is true that MIT has parties. None of ... , "MIT is only as hard as you want it to be" was true. In other ways, it ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  of MIT Sloan: Fun Fact: the exterior of the building is lined by 155 ... on the light (from mitsloan.mit.edu). E62 is also the most energy ... . Membership is free for all MIT students who have taken an appropriate class

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... many people like about it is that you don't have to go far to find your advising group and discuss issues pertaining to your transition to MIT. I

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the ... lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... very first class was safety day. Why? Because glass is super hot, and

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017