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• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Make Memories. Prepare. After all this is a really special time. A time ... remember is seeing everyone stumble out of the car as I spit a mouthful of blood, my eyes closing on me. The only other memory I have is holding my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  café, or (dare I say it) constantly refreshing the decisions.mit.edu page ... spans now from our phones and need constant stimulation. Which perhaps is ... -esque show with an actress from Orange is the New Black, basically she keeps

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  "wow, this is actually a little heavy," got on the bike, and roamed ... of like a teddy- OH GOODNESS. "Raphael, what is that?" Raphael looked ... . It's amazing what your body is capable of when that flee

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  interrogated him. Turns out that this convention center is being used for a Music ... ?? Where is it? Neighbor: Under the TV. Me: Really? Okay. I didn't see it ... "cosplay" isn't really his thing, and that cosplay is annoying because it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  's note:" so for the people that don't know, a vermonster is essentially a ... blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a ... played the game. That is a fact, not an opinion. He was the first sophomore

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on ... apart, it is very apparent that my friends and I have all changed - a lot

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an ... fifteen years later is the capital of Germany and its most popular tourist ... will start beating you. Did you know that Haagen Dazs is a made-up word

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE requirement The instructor let me take it home! I SPLIT AN ARROW Edit: Okay, it…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super ... high. Charm, like me, is from Arizona, and one or the other of us kept ... and econ, biology and math, meanwhile we from MIT mentioned nothing more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... reflected as true with a significant number of people. The sense that MIT was ... recent alum spoke about her experience when she had been coming into MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  [annotation note="cj: speaking is lumia n. '24"]i ... in this post is kinda uncomfortable lol"]cj.[/annotation] i soon came ... , when mit let people live on campus again. this was back in covid times

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... day trip to New York. Some of my SSP friends now attend MIT with me, and ... ’ve gotten invaluable advice about high school, college applications, and MIT

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not ... never watched Queen’s Gambit so idk if this is actually accurate). This is ... of MIT (and assorted) friends—a bundle of enthusiastic, silly people

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  much stronger than upright pianos? I thought MIT students were smarter ... real music. I checked the MIT Arts Calendar and saw that there was a Jazz ... anticipated, MIT being MIT, not having enough time for viola; and, both

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  MIT application. We feel that the QuestBridge application provides ... will have to submit our MIT QuestBridge Supplement, which will be ... that did not rank MIT, but you would like to apply for our Regular Action
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  is a bit pricey, but it's quite tasty. (And plus, MIT pays for my food ... This post is way overdue, but I figure - better late than never. Here ... car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... never forget. Remind people that you believe in them! - Today is January

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  ="Global Teaching Labs, the wonderful teaching abroad program at MIT ... northern Wales, so that’s where I got shipped to this IAP!  What is Wales ... at nearby towns."]long name[/annotation] and [annotation note="this is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... , which is pretty special"]painting my door;[/annotation]it isn't done yet ... turns out that a minority of buttloads is still most of a buttload. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I had psets to do and exams to study for. My doctor is really nice ... forgot to carry the actual cards. This is why I live in a dorm that’s close ... reality, this is my fault, so I try not to glare at the attendants as I wait

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019