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  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... ). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the ... squeeze in another major. (My friend Woody '08 is trying to double in 16 and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  : I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of ... to a faster-paced day. There’s still a ton of small little breaks in

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  age-old tale, That owning pieces of the world pales in comparison To ... what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... movies related in some form or fashion. It has the potential to be an

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  wanted to tie in the Olympics somehow, but no such luck there. Sorry, Paris ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  started work, i woke up to an email in my inbox saying that my e3 ... took the extra time to hang out in the kitchen and inhale some coffee. we ... had a solid place in the queue - about halfway in. doors opened to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember ... rise from Killian Court in my pajamas. I remember my soon-to ... This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  opportunities (like what I did in my last two IAPs), to work on projects (both ... three different IAPs in three different countries. I think it'll have to ... under a rock in a barren desert devoid of Internet connection). I went to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... opposing windows to use in my EC room and mixed the air all up with the fan ... I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born ... in June, July, and September). 3. BUT you'd have to figure that it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations ... group, to serenade some guy in the first row. At the end of the serenade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... note to go to more student performances in the future. Friday, November

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... . There are many strengths to poetry, but in particular I love the ability

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... 'm able to claim the two rebates associated with the product. In particular ... in Boston, I'm pretty sure that you'll have to change your phone number

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... preserved monument to Cambridge's role in this very early stage of the ... leveled most of its hills in order to fill in vast swaths of land in South

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... trees, once bloomed, typically last about one to two weeks in springtime ... mom used to say that I’m directionless; not in life, but by foot. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... ’ll email you to let you know. Next, be sure to enroll in a college ... more than a page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... , 2014. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You ... page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-late April with an

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production ... to invert the character, to manifest their inside in the outer world

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025