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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  without distinction—they simply roll along with time; moments pile up to ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating ... time ever to turning in my first p-set to blogging for you guys

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  appealing. It's like...watching Breaking Bad for the first time (which ... .900: Introduction to Linguistics A very long time ago, I told you guys about my ... around that time.) Though that story didn't have a picture perfect ending

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  classmates and I all knew we had to absorb and many times challenge. No, this ... on the architecture career for quite some time now. But it has taken a long time for me to admit that, because at MIT, the work really does

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  ) and made it just in time. Our driver was Linda, the trip leader: she has ... time I saw a cardinal for the rest of the day, my heart fluttered a bit, and it felt like I was seeing it for the first time. At the end of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  at the top of the hill. Ok, time to listen to the blog comment and ... : Finally it was time to descend, something that really hurt me to do, seeing ... a half. That's a long time, but I was able to entertain myself by

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... . Why is it funny that someone could be smart and sexy at the same time? I mean, you can be short and blonde at the same time. You can be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  , this one time freshman year... okay, I'm not telling that story. But ... and love you. (True story: The first time I got sick freshman year, I ... got flattened by psychotic Boston drivers a couple of times. But the T

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... -trained students. I've been to Urgent Care way too many times in my undergraduate ... -- they're worried about getting faculty positions at the same time they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  another time I had woken up that early this semester and also don't think I ... the first time as we were driving was actually a shock to me. Once we ... happening at the same time that ranged from design talks, to AI talks, to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  and outside my control, i had an overall pretty mid time. it wasn ... ="where i spent all my time"]midtown manhattan[/annotation] is the epitome of ... — after all, is this not the most instagrammable city of all time? i grabbed

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  fun all the time.  I really had to struggle to just pass my classes, and ... these classes. So all in all, even though it was terrible at times, I ... first time going and I'm terrified of dancing but it was so much fun and I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  some question that's already been answered twenty zillion times. And don ... traditional advisor is also available for one-on-one meetings any time during ... time -- but you do get 6 units of academic credit for them!), but not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... time. I mean, I'm not exactly the world's most creative person, so it ... wanted to know what I had been missing out on all this time, so I signed up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  part. Edge-finding! Woo! Next, we drilled a couple concentric holes for ... part so that our plastic lens cover would be flush with the top surface ... didn't photograph these parts). Once we finished these parts, we moved

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here ... experiences when they visit MIT for the first time is that the Infinite corridor ... Infinite isn’t infinite … most of the time. Not when your mindnumbingly long

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Awkward Moment A little anecdote.

  

  Now I have a lot more stories where this comes from... Tuesday, I was walking down the Infinite with my advisor where SAVE (Save A Vital Earth) was promoting an energy campaign titled "Do It In The Dark." As part of

  • by Bryan
  • April 14, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part. If you did not submit
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from all backgrounds. We know that while for some students getting into a
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  have to be, in part at least, a game of numbers, which the maximum ... Time psychology article reported on results of a survey of 147 people

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  Around this time last year, I was furiously wrapping two shipping ... destination address, which at the time was 229 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA ... into an Uber. It was my first time in an Uber, and the interior of this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022