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  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of ... runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... effects of not being stereotypically feminine, which in most cases was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  on top of all of that, financial challenges can make this exponentially harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... .  CASE's overall mission is to improve MIT's community awareness of class disparities

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011