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• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea. Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... outside of what I've always known get realized was really striking. I was ... who lives in the city. Here's a photo dump/itinerary of what we did

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  . After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use ... list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the ... , chemical and computer science companies in California, tech companies in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , and had to check it out. "The Other Change of Hobbit: a science fiction ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of ... around for a few more hours until the end of the party. and when everyone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you ... phrasing you like more i suppose during the summer, fall, and winter of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first ... of 2016, where he and other MIT students worked on interesting startup

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  There is a small rock in my shoe. In Fall 2016, University of Missouri ... spend a lot of time reading articles and opinion editorials about a lot of our frightening modern day issues, and I spent a lot of time thinking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge. Too many locked rooms, too clean rooms, too many signs of lifelessness

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did ... somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... 't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  later, how have I changed? I’ve been trying to sort through some of the ... justice with a speedily-written blog post, but I will try, because as of ... campus in September of 2022, I was a different person in a lot of ways, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do– but none of that is important right now. It’s the first day of Junior year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  : The admissions officers will be reading these applications all of ... processing. If your school uses Naviance/Docufide to submit letters of ... MIT doe snot use the Common App; submission of materials works in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011