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  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  🎶Will the stars align? 🎶 🎶Will my interviews go fine?🎶 🎶Will the job be mine?🎶   Please accept me please I want a job so badly Please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H. ‘22, Emma L. ‘22, Faduma K. ‘22).  While our names only represent the first 6 letters of…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with Residential Exploration (REX), which is part…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It’s an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is arriving to campus to begin their orientation to MIT. I’m excited to connect with our newly enrolled…

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i’m writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can’t quite…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  The word advice comes from the Old French avis comes from the Latin ad and visum⁠01 and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  All dates are auspicious, but some more than others. For me, August 10th will always hold a special significance⁠06 Beyond the matter in Lisbon, I mean. as the day I…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  Nov 2, 2016 Three years ago, this was released! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY6kfVWv01k We LOVED this short the first time we watched it!!! The concept of the show is oozing creativity! Tulip, the…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  Heads up: I’m not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard enough,…

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a previous blog post: the days go by slowly but the weeks speed by. here are some…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri’s Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time you are particularly special.  Because you are…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a full meal in my life,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye ’20 and Caroline Mak ’18 Preface: This past Friday after finding out about his passing, Jessica and I learned that we both…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a…

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: EX MACHINA SOUNDTRACK Trying to say something that sounds important? Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a working computer, and some free…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I’m away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the phones back in Cambridge that we’ve gotten some inquiries about our essay prompts for the forthcoming…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it’s supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019