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  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  internationals at my hostel. More churches and panoramic views, but this time ... and histories, with daily lessons in Greek, Latin, and philosophy for ... still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  it is *top secret* stuff for now. So, look out for that post around mid ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a ... . But for some reason, we LOVE it! Our fave songs are Your Day, Lilacs

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and ... anyone would doubt even for a second that women at MIT sign up for science ... think the graduation rates for men and women at MIT are very similar. And

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences for the academic standards i’m comfortable with? could i, perhaps ... Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... "]FPOP[/annotation] counselors (a super inspiring upperclassman!), so i reached out asking for his

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  summer internship at Brookhaven National Laboratory. While on line for ... . Interview answers have been edited for brevity. Give me the one-sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a ... school had performing and visual arts magnet programs) at my school. This ... also an all-time record for my school. Now comes the funny part

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  and early at 7 am for breakfast, and we had class from 8 am until noon ... for most people (20!!!!) going down the chute at once. Then dinner and ... learned at GELcamp. And with that – thanks for tagging along with me to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  rural poverty. There’s at least some support network for the rural ... for being you. And lastly, to the slum children who smiled at me even ... came away with enough stories to fill several days at least – I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  Composition (for people who were at a Spanish IV level or higher) and Spanish ... in another country? And what if you’ve got other plans for the summer ... —which is a pretty common case for MIT students—then IAP is the perfect time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  ’t start at the absolute last minute. You have to leave time for the natural ... applications, writing essays, or at the very least agonizing about writing essays ... else is 34000+? The number of cities that Airbnb services! Hooray for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  we gonna use it for?" It turned out that her room in our apartment had too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... this whiteboard for everything. (We're probably a little too proud of it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  students at MIT, I’m not at home for this Thanksgiving. I won’t be eating my ... . Shush. At home my family will be working their way through Thanksgiving ... importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  .[/annotation] I do not really have a plan for how to navigate the reservation at ... hip. For the last few blocks, I have been stopping at each corner to ... The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  's another story for another day. There were also a lot of pieces by the ... display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In ... begun to transform into a machine. Food for thought? What else -- there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... of advice from experienced friends, googling and learning from mistakes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  . Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack ... for this so long. Even now, getting to college, when we're sitting at an ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . Winter break as officially started for me, so life is pretty good right now ... !” – in the past month, but as a result, my desk at home has suffered. It ... . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  important if you're considering studying at MIT!) But for those of you that ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... promise. There is, however, one analogy for which I cannot be completely

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  , is that at MIT I've been able to feel seen. Most times for the better ... wanted for this blog at least. I've included annotations to provide some ... year I decided to write another monologue to give at the performance, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  the machine.    And then. I was asking a friend at EC for pset ... screen to replace mine. I hadn’t planned for this, so I walked outside and ... repair shops and found one that did have a 3a screen. I glanced at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022