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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... deliver the presentation in Kresge Auditorium. No, your eyes do not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  _hidden]2. Write—something—once a week. Drink tea while you do it. Feel that ... hours of sleep. Write—something—once a week. Drink tea while you do it ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  /approachable instead of offering a blunt "What do you want" (or the even more common ... dining halls because they use the liquid eggs only), and sometimes do a ... people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can ... with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  a distress email, I'm certainly honored, but please do contact your ... to be up there, on THAT VERY STAGE, doing standup with a hand puppet ... like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  Did It! a delightful new album by a band called Bugs Frogs & Snakes ... the pilot knows they did a good job. Otherwise how would they know, you know? I suggested asking for a photo with the pilot. Hailey mentioned a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a ... one) room. The camera once again pans around the room, revealing a bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  students. We can do this, guys!   Antonella Masini is a sophomore ... ’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to ... “how are you doing”s lacking response.   The shy, tanned girl

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  DIII, so it’s rare that we directly compete with them. As a result, it ... doing math or whatever. Doing math or whatever And I won’t regale you ... that time is a valuable resource here. That’s why it’s a bit surprising

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location ... view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  disparity is my own doing – I didn't have a job during the year (although few ... , while Europeans do something called "enjoy life". It reminded me of something I noticed a couple months ago – this: What's that, you ask? The top

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  about a white elephant right now. Maybe, like me, your brain would do ... I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... the metropolitan areas involved vary. Metro Manila is a well ... tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in order to do more work. So ... high of being a new student, and I’m starting to learn what I need to do ... five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  , this is easier to do when you aren't rushing to submit an essay before a ... Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... about her awesome film-making job) and a visiting film crew from ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  assignments, summer project proposals, and chocolate. With a to-do list as long ... will cover a couple different trips over the past few months. And since ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  that I wasn’t doing it right. I think I’m on a good track right now, and ... Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013