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• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  enjoyed it. We earned some money, despite going over budget. And, I'm going ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible people on here. I've befriended seven incredibly talented and intelligent

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  . wow. First up, 11.125: Understanding and Evaluating Education CI-H HASS ... -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... -college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  , Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system. My house is called WILG ... called the fire station. The firefighters came and unfortunately sustained ... few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  only vaguely related to the real world, and by the time you finish you ... involved in that bus going over that cliff?? How?! And why isn't it next ... now. The real reason I'm writing about this is because it's on my mind

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... literally the hardest experience of my MIT career, and how I dealt very poorly ... to. The 'perfect applicant' doesn't exist, and the college application

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i ... through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be "productive". feeling guilty about not being productive isn't healthy and is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT History Department and Concourse program. Here are some pictures I took. Day ... ;   Cats on a Hot Tin(Metal) Roof   Day 2: The Agora and various

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  of a horror movie, only real. I did eventually make it back to MIT and ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I noticed a funny question on the invitation and was so intrigued that I ... character, and Sam put "Benjamin Franklin" (he cites Pennsylvania pride

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and ... -wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major ... up in 2003 and is home to about 700 scientists. Ever seen those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... Mitra and put up a really simple temporary design for the time being. So I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  grad students and Real Adults with Fancy Jobs), they actually waive ... not through the words that you and I use. [caption id="attachment_96820 ... cold, and the way the sun disappears by four bothers me a lot actually

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  real workforce one day, and you remember that this whole thing so far ... whining about your problems and they're not real. And then someone gives ... ??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog ... student group that designs the Brass Rat and manages events like Ring Premiere and Ring Delivery, so of course I had to show up to Premiere and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  undergrad, and your undergrad school will change you, whether for better or ... -year-old undergrad applicant and me as a 21-year-old grad school ... education at MIT. I'm smart, okay, but I'm not, and never have been, one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy ... : I have a new blog now. Here it is. and now, here are three thoughts ... public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower ... they be great students and great kids overall, they end up rejected. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  'm taking four history classes this term and I've never really realized the ... semester's worth of essays - and music!!) back though!! :( Haha - so this is ... , and you'll see open laptops although their owners are still very much

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025