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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... . We might get a subject prompt, a first line of inspiration, or the

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... stick a master list of all my vlogs at the top of the page with some handy ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy. Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom ... rumination and pages of beginnings. My first time, this happened under a full ... stapling the pages of psets together with a precise corner shot. I love

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  's you consider the implications of the hundreds of pages that you've just ... with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass cases with all the toppings laid out in a symphony of delicious colors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this ... across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : MIThenge Anyways, besides the whole school part of this school, there are a ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other ... historical integrity of the piece, you’ll have to reload the page if you want ... was sitting in the first row of his class drawing a cute picture of my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in-Cambridge list are actually the courses (Tripos) I took, which consist of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  ’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of ... the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I read the page once. I read it again. I changed my Facebook status. I told

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the ... wouldn't result in a scar, you're just scratching at the surface of the ... that they have fingers and toes. I first start with the fingers. I have

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  a crap ton of tape: Alumni  Since the very first email went out, an ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  ’d established this kind of culture in the whole department. I could identify ... name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... the first place. And not because this will make writing your personal

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014