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  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you know MIT as well as you think you do? These facts will totally blow your ... humming and even doing a little jig in front of the Borderline murals. Even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  this impulse might actually be doing me more harm than good, and that the ... them ever realizing i'd abused staff powers to do so. it wouldn’t have ... dangerous, but the fact that i do have them means that, for now at least

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... 's climate system, a topic I find much more interesting. I wonder if I'm doing ... 't really know what to do about it except to power through.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  subcultures of mit, i do actually take on group identities and it usually turns ... ever. (the other reasons are that i enjoy most of the work i do, and that ... ’t know if i want to change or in what directions i would. what i do know is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  tech intern doing web development things. This was my third summer ... what I was doing. All this to say that until this summer I was a ... parents were looking after me. Doing the same this summer was a lot harder

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... : I do not have a time machine to go back and study the same person ... cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... do a little shopping, I got some good food from Trader Joe's, we walked ... and do work with friends. One thing that's really stood out to me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... promised myself that no matter what, I wouldn't do any work until the Monday ... to be thankful for than usual. But at least we do have, here in our

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  people seeking where I hide, there is no way to do this empirically – no ... .  Doing well in this game was very luck dependent. To make my decision, I ... pick by just picking what I might actually do if we were playing Hide and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  to do during the academic year since i didn't have a bike! bike's are ... with people who have about as much control over their lives as you do ... what she's doing. barbecuing — my apartment has a communal area for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... friend Katherine's birthday! 9) A paper bag that we do not remember the ... back with him. We found them when doing laundry and they fell out of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  students find internships. Overall, I had no idea what I was doing ... wanted nothing to do with a snot-nosed frosh which is, well, pretty ... offices, doing resume and cover letter reviews. These also gave me huge

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  hoping to get around to doing: sleeping 14+ hours straight and taking ... everyone is doing okay, or at least, doing as best as you can under the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  floor because our router is in the basement. i wonder if i should do the ... want to pivot from doing software and pursue music instead, perhaps in a couple years. i saw myself becoming a musician, and i still do, but after

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... floor also jammed to it on my last night at MIT Do You Realize?? by The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  extracurriculars, or pour any more time into the ones that I already do. I'm hoping ... . This is, sadly, partially driven by blogger's block. I do things, and I ... want to do after I graduate. I sure hope I know by December 31, 2020

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  do (it probably inherited the stubbornness of my badass grandmother, but that’s a different story, a different time). The most I can do is ... do get to see MIT, at 7 am, in its glory of quiet energy, just waiting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ’t do well on most of them, unfortunately.  Grad School??? After going ... in this *figuring out what to do next year* phase In senior year of ... , like 1.5 steps away.  Doing well on the 6.837 test We were happy with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... grabbing a blue book being handed out. I didn’t do as well as I thought I would do, but I still did really well. Here’s some scrap paper. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between like 12:30-1 and walk around Boston CJ: i have hw CJ: but fuck that CJ

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019