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• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  find myself unable to do anything, whether it’s as grand as stopping a pandemic or as small as comforting a friend. All there is to do is wait. Wait ... trying to do something. Our dining room has been converted into a home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later ... postcards picked up at a writing conference many states away. I moved the lamp from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  've been waiting to tell your friends, family, or family pets to vote, do it ... , iPhones, Treos, whatever.. just be sure to do it before the deadline ... , to the point that I sound like a drowning male frog through a voice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get ... incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do. Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special ... only so much time in a day to do everything, so why do you deserve their ... What follows is a thought that I've mulled over recently put into

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  sort of review, but I'm still quite iffy on how I'll do...so would a poor ... It's been a while since I've done a Questions Omnibus... Harlan '10 ... recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to laugh about it over. “Have you ever looked at a Domino’s box? Do people

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a ... 's post or Cam's post, you've probably gotten the idea that driving is a bad

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  twist and break, doing everything to throw you off its course. A storm ... numbers and letters. Scores and grades do a fairly reasonable job of ... millions of people is your drive, do it! Dedicate a significant amount of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  're doing it to make a deadline, or because you're forced to. but if i tell my ... where i want to work—i stop myself. i try to do something else. read a ... friends, is what people do outside of work. the other day there was a picnic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails ... do justice to how otherwordly it is. For a day, I was a princess ... jousting on a zipline, with a foam sword. I hear princesses used to do that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... . Why do we send you all of that stuff? Good question. The answer is that ... admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... linguistics, I recently started a UROP that has to do with the rhythm of speech ... week some time ago: we'll be doing a co-blog post thingy about it down

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  different functions and settings do, and then also read a bunch of photography ... classes (a chunk of which is TAing for Toy Design), doing Pistol (Nationals ... working to make an awesome video), am doing NextACT (a play put on by Next

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  skillset to do it. I want to make X project but it requires A, B, and C ... trying to do a lot recently since I've spent...a lot of time crying over ... As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... sure has made my days delicious. I also think they do a really good job ... I'm cooking works a lot better than trying to do things from a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... . Tell us a bit about your experience as an MIT student. What did you do ... I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007