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• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of ... you what those dorms mean, which one is the equivalent of Baker or East

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  college the best they can be. Like most things in life, what you put into the experience is ultimately what you'll get out of it. ** End ... ; ** Unsolicited advice from Labs ** If you were hoping to transfer but were

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  call all yalls. Especially, since, I can chat with you here. So, here ... . . . have at it. You get me for three hours, go. ... for the evening, because MIT is calling YOU! That's right, tonight is

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... that's not enough for you, I have four-hour long shifts times three left ... be finishing in 15 minutes to get to my two classes this afternoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  'm special. Perhaps this year I'll get crazy and occasionally sit at that other table. You know, change it up. :-) And so far you're all awesome ... monotonous. The setting? Indeed. But in the same way that a good book can carry

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  -written. Two of the forthcoming entries will introduce you to two new additions to our office, Jenny Rifken and Bryan Nance. You can welcome them to ... 's wedding, but while you're over there, you might as well do some tourism, no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  works for tons of people; I'm partial to the setup of frat rush, where you go where you want to go without four solid days of alphabetical order ... first year at MIT is for us to get over ourselves. What's that, you say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... "] i still can't believe i was actually given a platform for my garbage

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on ... ensuring that you will not drown if your get knocked into the ocean while ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  compass. But he did. I hope you can understand why many people are in ... report) it was just speculation or rumor and you can't fire a person or ... ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  years now, and this is the only time my parents get to see us perform. You ... feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love ... rich material for this project—as you can see below—but most people

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  . Weekends are for recharging. Where are you, PNR? *hosed: in a constant ... /No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... sleep this weekend. And I get carsick really easily. What is sleep? What

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  name's Paul Baranay, and I guess you can call me the new kid on the blogs ... question that no one else can answer for you. You will have to overcome these ... will get through. With that said, let me officially welcome all of you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  shallows, where our feet can still touch the ground, and get out after a few ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for ... cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  hard time coming up with something that works. You can not solve this ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... projects, where we're presented with a fairly real world problem, and we have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  a good option. Because in life, every hand can be a winner if you play ... say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth ... teachers, and don't give it to MIT. Those people can all make decisions that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  ’t you switching trains? how can you just accept that the pieces of your ... i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... you remember the first few times you try something much better than the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  ’t get in trouble.” “No Mom, we did not get in trouble.” There was the heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs ... deficiencies, ones you might notice if you bent down and looked very, very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  something you can’t imagine you ever lived without. I’m kind of writing this ... I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never ... [/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024