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• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion ... is probably not worth ten billion dollars, so it would be better for me ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  find an outlet at the festival, Raphael decided that he was due for a ... a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  addition to more large-scale happenings at the List Center for the Arts, the ... for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly ... studies, urban planning, history of architecture, etc. For example, did you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  , especially at schools like mit, for abandoning their intellectual interests and ... a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the ... : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... , save for the mechanical whirring that plague every dorm basement, we got ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  before I fly back to Cambridge tomorrow morning. I’m on my own for now; my cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and ... walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  freshman advising seminar 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I’m flabbergasted at ... ://listart.mit.edu/public_art for virtual tours and more information on the individual pieces. Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  didn’t help me at all when I was actually writing my essays. If you are ... to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .\n") print(c,"Not for actual cheating, but for when you're working at home and ... CourseWare. I did a few lessons before stopping to have time to study for the SAT ... reminded me a lot of GameMaker. Also, my dad got me my first Arduino kit for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not ... hold off on some interesting pictures I have for you so I can follow ... that I basically stole his intellectual property. Way to be. =) Now for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  . No, not really. Anyway, we decided to head over at 1:00 PM for the 4 ... , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... phone. As Ajay found his profile for me, Lupe sighed. "This is what I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a ... people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... 'd be set for the rest of my life. The day before I left, we picked

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  , but more on that later.  Before and After! At home, I was ... bedrooms with my brother at one point so I could paint a mural on a larger wall. But it still wouldn’t prepare me for decorating and

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  at MIT). But see for yourself. Below is the movie 4-145, then the real ... interested in 4-145, the Blackjack Team practice room. For example, Chris wrote ... -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  response was No." Obviously, I don't know for sure if this is the true ... . For example, I would probably reject anyone who asked me out if they ... reason for rejecting someone. But it would just be way too awkward to date

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  ) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are ... advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... are currently four options for learning communities: Terrascope

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025