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  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... be if I can't make time for anything but my classes. I need to make ... mean, it's something I need to do. But who I am is more than that. How do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last-minute multimillion-dollar gift from an anonymous individual known for years only as "Mr. Smith

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  suit to be a superhero. No "baby I was born this way" origin story for ... those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  -off things like "How much do you know about Canada?" and "Lockpicking 101" to ... . This fall, I'm preparing to teach two classes for ESP's big Splash event ... going to university in the Cambridge/Boston area: how many other awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  for MIT students. That also includes ambulance rides to and from MIT ... later, I'm here now trying really hard to kick this thing once and for all ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  know there were international symbols for those things. We went to the ... , higher grades are better, but it's also good for you to take the most ... 'm only going to be here for three months. I also didn't want to investing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  're worrying about picking their kids up from school and how to buy a house on a ... of the classes you plan to take. 7. And finally, for the one I'm most ... . Granted, I didn't care (I've never been one to let other people tell me how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... has to be mentally prepared for that when visiting a modern art museum ... decide to look them up; they will not leave your head for a long time. Duh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  lot of useful information and gained insight as to how we can improve ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  do this for two reasons: One, I want to show you that, despite our ... happiness that I've been waiting to feel for a very long time." MIT is no ... MIT's campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  I didn’t know how to feel about it. I think I never truly realized ... ’t appreciate how much effort we had been putting in until we didn’t have to ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  to that cause or job or person for the rest of your life, and sometimes ... poetry reading for a class; last weekend i went to the MFA, danced, worked ... overwhelming, i try to make sure i remember this every single day. for the most

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  peaceful to escape my life for a bit and just live like an Animal Crossing ... just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to ... 'd just touch on it a little bit. I love going to parties! I love going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  strategy to choose (should I go for the humanities balls? should I make use ... directly for his humanities ball, in the meantime using my robot to block his ... friends vouched for me (as in, fought with the judges to let me try again

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The ... the opportunities available to them at their current or most recent ... would bring something unique and special to our community.
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to ... hadn't reached out to anyone for recommendations. We hadn't requested any ... signed up for two test dates and found 3 recommenders willing to write us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United States, and how it related to the promotion of unity and understanding on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a ... ” to change everything in his life, and joked that he might run for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So ... too. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blogpost about how I was halfway

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023