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• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try something a little more humanities-oriented. And perhaps even more importantly ... tourists and visitors that constantly streamed through Harvard Yard...some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  sounds like. Fun fact: This is a real thing!   her smile and ... : This one was added to the list because my third and final sister wanted

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  Jonathan Foley answered, They can be organized in terms of content and ... . Why not call Course 9 'Biology'? Why not go the full distance and ... kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  academics, such as planning and executing a water project in Ethiopia, becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and ... from the situation and moving on. After high school, I felt like I had this process down. Although I was very excited and happy when I first

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  where MIT students teach middle school girls and nonbinary students basic ... on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of ... friend, Tiffany T. '22. I didn't really know much about it and wasn't all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  and better. Best of all, engineering allows you to solve real problems ... commercial lunar lander. These things are real and they are epic and this is ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  , people watch, and reflect on how you should compensate for your ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within and outside my control, i had an overall pretty mid time. it wasn

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  and limited to being mostly textual: an email to an advisor, letting ... occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my interactions, but those are exhausting and more rare now that classes are over

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• 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

  

  ’s residential Back Bay area and create new, valuable real estate. The proposals ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the ... undeveloped, unappealing, and industrial. “So it made some sense from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  to after your little brother has insisted on listening to Owl City and Train for the last hour and you've forgotten what real music sounds like ... along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  (7 mini and colorful, 4 retractable) Hand sanitizer Laundry ... balls, yoyos, bottle openers, sunglasses, cozies And my personal favorite, a wind-up boogie robot I just recently sorted, organized, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I have 30 followers. I'm not that interesting, honestly, and I don't use ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  spectacular and actually blogworthy, we will be forced to show you what a real ... , big yard, and law students? The one whose t-shirts hog all the space on ... slight rivalry between Harvard and MIT. Whenever I'm talking to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... trip in New Hampshire and fall down a slope and break my collarbone on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... , it's the response from you guys. Getting your comments and immediate ... ://www.collegescholarships.org/blog/2007/10/08/vote-for-the-winner-of-the-2007-blogging-scholarship/. And if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  (come revel in my depthless wit in real life!), and who knows what else ... Ahh CPW. The time when underclassmen, upperclassmen, and prospective ... , and most importantly....food. (seriously, there's so much food for you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... ? Somewhat consoled and way too hyped about getting into MIT to be feeling too ... ) Program, and experienced one of the best weeks of my life. Ever since then

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  into term, all the way near Thanksgiving), and waved goodbye to Cell Bio ... in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009