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• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... fears of the leaving and the trying to find new places and the forgetting ... each other on birthdays. usually.   i only have vague recollections

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  -about-MIT-that-actually-aren't-true-ya-dinguses because I am so tired of repeating the fact that yes, MIT has good ... With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  Innovation Period. 15.662x is a rich way of linking on-campus work with the ... : this post was originally published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning ... exploring new technologies toward the goal of innovating teaching and learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  situation where a little bit of encouragement went a long way. This past ... Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or ... on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  team that oversees CPW planning (more on them later!), each member of the ... . This is just a selection of some of the tasks on our checklist leading up ... audience of over 1,000. On MIT’s urban campus, there are only a handful of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  Politiques Français Since I know all of you read about French politics on a ... though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  presentation on Poisson statistics, I got torn to shreds. Instead of defending ... : the excitement of coming up with something new TOTALLY outweighs the ... fun! I went on a ride that looks like this*. then when I got home I con

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  found them on a job board just a few weeks ago. the rest of the party was ... way out. this weekend was a powerful reminder of why I love my ... "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  advertised total of 3.14 days"] CPW [/annotation] was something completely new ... ) and were amazing in their own way - some of which were people I had met ... took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... today. I might not. Three days ago I sat and waited on the patio of a ... the smell of skunk on the road. I sat down nearby and met a thin old man

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  small committee of admissions officers who work on the blogs + some senior ... advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) There are lots of smol nerds running around the various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  . Our posters had Krotus, the dark lord of 5th East, on them, with entertaining flavor text underneath, as pictured below: Hey, it's a good way ... . And we did a four-or-five-story tall projection of Krotus on the side of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6 ... beginning of college, and I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it, but I regret ... , describing the ways in which they aren’t so bad. Most of these mistakes are, in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... her high school, Stuyvesant, and on the way there she pointed out the ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen of MIT's new president, a big Red Sox winning streak... a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... throughout high school because of the way the blogs painted it. While we never did anything for it to look good on an application (and tried instead to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  applicable or useful, but there you go.  Albatross Lore For a good portion of ... wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to ... swim class)  The idea of “No Elbows on the Table!” stems from when

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... a way to post all of the videos in such a way that not only do they ... a feng shui of Youtube. First: I was on Youtube the other day and on

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  admission, there is a bit of role reversal as a new decision date approaches ... of sense. You may well discover after spending 4 years on another ... Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  , MD, home of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ... twice a week to work on tumbling, flexibility, and jumps with our new ... organizational meetings. Mitra ran a lot of them. :) When freshmen arrived on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006