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  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you ... bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other colleges). This ... orientation if at all possible. If this sounds like something you might like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It ... you end up next. In literary practice, bookends are matching scenes at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  , you're stuck processing too much information all at once. a manual ... emotions can be annoying at best and a grueling fight at worst. do take care

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for ... kidney donor; at any awards ceremony where the winner is expected to give a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... stressful, at the same time. i'm taking 48 units this semester, and when i ... friday morning office hours to beg for help before it's due at 5 pm. but it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  occupy my time. This trend continued at MIT (what, you mean MIT students ... unfortunately, "just a few hours" is not short enough to start a book at 11.30 pm when you have class at 9 am :( This summer, though, things are different

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... first is I’m three days away from my first day at my [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  random things that I have learned since moving to Beantown.  Beantown at ... . The cold months will last at least from October through March. If you ... there is at least one Dunkin Donuts every block or so. Dunkin is not just

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels ... like, “wow people who are good at writing are so cool! If I start writing ... always feel like I’m going through a period of transition during my time at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my cousins, our parents would let us run amok at Disneyland ... Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on ... to be bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other ... orientation if at all possible, given people's obligations and whatever the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  chalk at a small angle [latex]\theta[/latex] down from the perpendicular ... holding it at the same angle [latex]\theta[/latex]. You should feel your ... pushing into the board too much, or you didn't hold your chalk at the same

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... , feeling more alone than ever because while I was at home, I kept on getting ... anger at not being invited out, and I couldn't figure out why it had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  application process, and believe that, as is true at some schools (but not us ... mean "wherever we each happen to be Zooming from at any given moment."']here at the office,[/annotation] we are all getting ready to read your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a ... it. I can’t vote here. And I can’t go to the protests back at home

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  minute lesson and the top 10 players with the most XP at the end of a given ... Duolingo for that given week. At first I was rationally apprehensive of ... , coincidentally at the bottom of Diamond League, and with a week between the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles ... plethora of joggers at 5:30 PM. I’ll miss my porch even though it’s falling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  that we were ever good at hockey...we’ve been in the D-D+ league for IM sports ever since the beginning"]who are absolute trash at intramural ... Bombers move off the floor in their four years at MIT, and all of them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... navigate. The first two weeks at school B, we stayed mostly reserved. We

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  that I've been on this flight (approximately two and a half hours at this ... blog, but also as a reminder for myself that this is what I'm thinking at ... looking at first jobs post graduation. And, there's a special program called

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019