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  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now ... (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  at my old high school for an assignment for 11.125 Evaluating Education ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... . __________________________________  Part 1: Freshman Fall I’ve only been here for a semester, but things have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least ... for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  looked up at my mom, who was still reaching for some higher-up fruit, her ... the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  got an e-mail from my labmate Jacqueline '07, who's working at NIST this ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... doubt that any of the pizza places at which I will probably be eating will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  rifles, indiscriminately firing at a bunch of unarmed students for a total ... "finally" because I'm pretty sure I actually bought the book at the MIT Press ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and ... :]." Ariadne, I've arranged for you to be contacted this weekend by Nicki '07

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... college counselors spend hours crafting a recommendation letter for each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  thing. I naively thought that, at MIT, I could make up for my past by ... lingering in the caverns for a while now, guilt gnawing away like rodents at ... I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  I can’t speak for the accessibility of research positions at other ... written at 9:32pm but I had an ambulance call while on shift for MIT ... Note: This post will be updated at irregular intervals today

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  sale at MIT, but for technology stuff. Vendors come once a month and sell ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... . Like at all. Last semester, I bought a cassette player, an old landline

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once ... just a few night later, but it does. The campus may not have changed at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  've done serious coding in a good while. At MIT, there's often an attitude ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... wrong choice at all. (Side note: Although I'm not claiming every course 6

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  industry. Thank you to Rosario and Hilda at Softtek for taking care of ... stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... fried plantains at a restaurant... banana on a plate   Computer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a ... from freezing my face off, which is nice. I’ve been back at MIT since ... we have to be back earlier than most (official IAP doesn’t start for

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  've been helping with through my UROP at the center for civic media ... (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... at the beginning of the summer to read and discuss interesting papers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the ... Rob earlier this summer, and learned more from Kim when I saw him at IOI ... assistance. Plus, Bebras' mascot is the beaver, just like (and for the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow ... -covered group hug. At some point, Chris, his wide eyes filled with nefarious joy ... as "backup", and we just went for it. Then everyone started

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014