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  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We ... 've decided that it's time for me to go back to my roots. no drawing could ... " align="alignnone" width="300"] CJ: "if i had a nickel for every time i had

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by ... studied hard for the biology exam right up until the last minute, and passed ... the majority of my finals week. Then I studied for the next exam

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a ... setting myself up for failure by promising myself full blogs about ... celebrate the end of our time at MIT. We gallivanted around the West Coast for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  suspicion that if it were normal times, I'd still have a slight distaste for ... about Random and what I'm excited for once things are... "normal." Living in NV has given me a newfound appreciation for the silly, donut

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and celebrate, because it

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake ... (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but ... need is ID showing that I'm over 18 and some money to pay for the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  support students living in cook-for-yourself communities. As you'll read ... on all weekdays. On the flip side, there are cook-for-yourself dorms ... sources such as groceries, instant meals, or takeout/delivery. Some cook-for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  .022 Physics II pset, which was due yesterday. On the right is a scale for ... anyway. The paper was useful for recording data. We measured the height of ... returned to me so far. I write up my psets for 8.022 and 18.701 Algebra I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... for a long, long, time. Thankfully, the real weekend (the one where I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  precedes certainty – at least for now.   You brought us work ... .  You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth ... projects that we hadn’t seen in years, and laughed a lot! So for that, thank

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20, who said, I feel like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  outreach programs include BoSTEM (a summer STEM program for underrepresented minorities), dynaMIT (a summer STEM program for low-income students), and ... leadership to high schoolers). Like CodeIt, students who serve as mentors for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  ="1000"] Highlights from my schedule for the past 3 weeks.[/caption]   ... too :o"]2 days for Thanksgiving[/annotation]. Then, it's 3 more weeks of ... matter how hard one tries. I am, however, grateful for some breathing room

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... pretext for further procrastination...but I will. Here are some blog posts ... MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for ... for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders ... classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the ... the green building to make a test for Borderline while Danny did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year ... list will close, and we will not be admitting any additional students for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017