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

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  experiences as a Fellow. Like I said, doing ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS. Have I ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  became depressed. I lost motivation to do schoolwork and spent a lot of my ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... aphantasia became a popular concept. I'd just always assumed that when people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  . It was a strange feeling. I don't remember the date, but I do remember ... 'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  had to ask a friend with tools to do this for me. Thank you Shophaus ... make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  from Home Depot. As a kid I had always wanted to do that. I met a lot of ... So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  and travel to Europe (or do the Cambridge-MIT Exchange); have a romantic ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare ... Center holding my name badge and a newly earned certificate and dragged my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place. Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do ... a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  this point, do not merit a debate. Because sometimes, there aren’t two ... do paid work. True. “Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... friends at 2am. Do a burger run at 1am. Drink a milkshake at midnight. But

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on"]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided ... for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  ?" and I am currently unable to think. Do I hear a weed-eater or a ... barking if Dog 1 or 2 starts barking. Dog 4 is a puppy that cannot be left ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  with a stipend!) by MIT. (Please, please do this. If you need help ... 're stagnating. You still have a lot of growing to do. Move. Let chapters end. A ... 'll probably do it, even if she thinks you're a weirdo with big thumbs! I grew up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012