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• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  entirely on the time I had to find a way out of that F. And the admissions ... I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of ... everything going on that semester, I had to be a good student. I negotiated

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... through the weekdays makes the weekends of lounging around on Friday and ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  AIDS Walk? Just click on the website address below to enter my ... weekend, please join the 10K event. We leave from the eastern end of Golden ... entertainment in Sharon Meadow Official SF AIDS Walk website And now for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  -grown trees on the walls. Just on the other side of the hill is a modern Buddha ... night in a hotel that had run the internet wiring on the outside of the ... Education Office) and the last for research on village reconstruction projects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... molten glass is and collecting some on the end of your pipe. Finally, we ... paperweight is really just a lump of glass. It can be completely round on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... smiling at everyone. Seeing the way in which you not only thrived on campus ... polar opposites of people that somehow found their way to each other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you ... not writing a whole lot this evening -- I'm still on Stockholm time, and ... to the Meet the Bloggers event on Friday, from 8:30pm-10pm. It should

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just ... freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and when he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  experiencing life faster and faster. (This website has a great visualization of ... Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... on and so forth. I feel like I'm doing that with my time here at MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  frustration on my notes. When MIT websites don't work You ever hate it when ... that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... possible way, or 5+ people congesting the hallway like a sinus infection

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate ... place with a new language. It's difficult. I'm envious of those ... there are other ways to live. Language is tied to that. Staying aware of

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  and stress relief. We also found a lot of good food places like ... Caroline then later took on the role of baking and cooking, with Aiden just ... .  Uhh...made a lot of good friends. Much happier than I started this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  most of the way and only actually hiked the last 1k or so feet of ... started, I was running on 5-6 hours of sleep a night -- the FPOP schedule ... 'm super excited for all of them. I'm holding off on taking some required

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  way the laws of the universe flow out of math equations, I love solving ... think about my interests and possible career/research paths in a new way ... applications in climate science later on (in grad school, or in my choice of job

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  "]meal.[/annotation] The chances of me leaving this world because I choked on bread are ... ’.  Monday  12:30 pm I get on a call with one of my pod mates and ask ... random things and learn new things along the way. For instance, I did know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  of my ability to go, "Haha, yeah, I like that show," and move on. Being ... -changing. I'd initially read the English translation of MDZS, but I moved on to ... , and before long, every single piece of paper I could get my hands on was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  . I can talk to her on my way to the coffee shop without losing work ... stay on the phone with her.   1:30 PM: I make my way to the ... since not doing it on Sunday will throw off my work flow for the rest of

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  in a good way. What I Actually Read Between the World and Me, Ta ... , Merritt Tierce Killing Rage, bell hooks Meditations on the Future of Food ... , and I have not fixed my sights on any palace of wisdom. I am not sure

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  overwhelming number of requirements/GIRs that are on there. Now if we take a ... can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class ... lot of time on my UROP this semester. It involves making a game in Unity

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... his freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010