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• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling place here or drop off ur absentee ballot at a drop-off location: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ———— In the past…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these ‘unprecedented times’,  I’m finding that it’s exponentially worse.…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I’m in the midst of a lot of school and…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  This (mostly) isn’t a post about application essay advice. But, if you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for some essay advice from the bloggers of…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster. Waste hours for fun,…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it’s the first time in a while that I’ve been awake this early. Of the four people I’m sharing a room with, I’m…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I’m writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any kind of preferential “bump” to students who apply to MIT during Early Action. This is a longstanding…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you’ve read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I’ve talked about my experiences on the Burton Conner…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I decided that I would…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I’m working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It’s a window into…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  There’s a large park system in Boston called the The Emerald Necklace which stretches seven miles from the Boston Common all the way down to Franklin Park Zoo. Before this…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here’s the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn’t a pandemic, I wouldn’t be able to meet up with all…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  This was originally posted on my personal Medium blog @selamjie,  but I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may still be in high…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  My entire professional life has revolved around education and college admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition from an entirely paper-based process (featuring typed or hand-written…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It’s job recruiting season again, but this…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you’ll go blogpost because they really were all written in one document but it didn’t make sense for them to be…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  I’m currently dealing with writer’s block, to be honest, and I’ve been blocked on finishing some post ideas for several weeks now. So instead, let me talk about some of…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you’ll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me about not succumbing to stress as…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020