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• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  ’t come to MIT on an equal playing field. My friends came in with a massive ... with their years of preparation. So, just like I don’t beat myself up for ... ” friend. Ok, ok, that's a statement with MANY caveats. There are so many

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  summer in Israel; living with my six roommates has been a constant for the ... 's exciting. i've been toying with the idea for a while. i could also talk about ... 'm excited for. i miss dancing with the whole team. i'm opening the gate to my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  didn't to that because I scored free tickets to the BSO courtesy of the college card, which, as you've been told many times before, is given FOR FREE to all MIT students. Anyway, despite the fact the Berlioz's AWESOME

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  , visit decisions.mit.edu and login with your MyMIT username and password ... As the committee meets for the final week of the Early Action cycle, I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the Tech ... . Last weekend I went again just for fun. The smell of fish was strong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  I didn't really mind. I would like to record his playing and sample it on my first rock album. Then I would invite him to play for real at my ... "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for

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

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  could stop at the top of the waterfalls to eat our lunch and relax for a ... getting there, that's for sure. It was all in good fun! At least there ... . '15 and Becca G. '14 organized a last minute spring camping trip with 18

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  ="incidentally, admission is free for MIT students"]Museum of Fine Arts[/annotation]with a ... It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  ’d never played an instrument before but wanted to learn. For singing ... to join lots of email lists) and signed up to audition for eight of the ... to sign up for the ninth one, the Logarhythms, but one of the members

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  competition, show week for the fall play, the Macy's parade trip, and Christmas ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  they closed up for the day. Together we played with different installers ... things work out for good people on beautiful days, maybe. So it did with me ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  strangely similar to those for pasta. Bacilli with tomato sauce, anyone? Ok ... off, free street parking, copious amounts of barbequed meat, and ... bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  first time. Tonight, I'll be playing board games in Next with some of the ... day, the COVID Pass app got an update with the estimated wait. Last ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  other. i had plans to talk with eran for life advice, but that was before ... zoom on thursday nights, and we check in with each other and play jackbox ... since i got home 19 days ago, i've been... playing the new animal

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  for over 40 years!) These quotes have peppered my notebook all term, so ... x(0) = 2, y(0) = 1 "New Hampshire starts out with twice as many arms, which is to be expected because they have 'Live Free or Die' on their

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I'm friends with "MIT Engineers" on facebook, from whom I get the latest Tech ... , and there's even an iphone app, which is super useful for tracking all

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  , playing spirit island with friends on a friday afternoon in our weekly ... together with other dancers to compute moves while walking to the beat, the ... time i spent a whole day bouncing on and off trains with a friend, two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  , we yelled back, and he conferred with his friends for a translation. It ... electronic dance music, V-pop in local terms, just having fun with our new ... Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a ... with an enthusiasm for STEM, which may hide the arts communities from ... when I don’t seem to have any free time. However, for those who are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017