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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... you to apply to MIT in the first place – wherever you go. And I believe ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... have friends! Sometime at the beginning of 9th grade, we made our first ... school, the music instructors saw our lack of these skills, and placed us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  most of the dorms and ends at Trader Joe's/Whole Foods). 3. Harvest Co ... difficulty of recipe and whether or not it contained the LN2 that you ... task involving three aisles and a compass. Also, one of the employees

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  more along the lines of “okay, cool?” And boy did I feel guilty about it ... council of strangers. And now I’m climbing a mountain (as the metaphor goes ... ) the fact that I was admitted for who I am. Plus a whole lot of luck. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... ,000 words), and hundreds of jokes/puns/foreign phrases that require 700 pages

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  this: if you are completely ignorant of what's in the ocean and all you ... and just try it. Unlike a lot of other fields, due to the high cost of ... push myself to think out of the box this year and come up with some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's least favorites. At the top of each poop entry is the averaged ratings and ... drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... wardrobe and this has not changed for the past two years. You get tired of ... in-depth analysis of a TV Tropes page for T.L. Taylor's Games and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  the system response and gain a deeper intuitive understanding of complex ... See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital ... and resources outside the classroom. It is the “21st century

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  with the socioeconomic effects of widespread automation) and these ... , refusing to make decisions of my own and simply waiting around for the end of ... few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the ... Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3 ... end of the paper, the paper won't immediately tear like you might first

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  ) homework. You know, being a real person and that sort of thing. But as the ... audition for some kind of show the second I got onto campus, and I eventually ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  Institute director and biology professor David Page on the evolution of the Y ... (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications ... .   Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Sherry

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  of the struggles I’ve had related to sexual assault and how the same ... this busy before. I used to think the first week of classes was so busy ... of coffee. the days are so short, and you are so lovely.” Inkskinned

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  of the burdens of adjustment and culture shock. I've been busy ... engineering and applied international studies. You'll know at the end of the ... the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  of Sex and the City in which Carrie Bradshaw runs a 5K.) My new ... width of these images, but you can see the full chart and a large map here ... take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  registered for a whole host of half marathons that summer.  The first one was ... Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and ... and I loved it :) The next day was the 5k and my first time at

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  do these things with in the first place. and it feels like the kind of ... all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... the shock and denial of dealing with mit shutting down, and a lot of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . In the long run, it's better to judge the rest of MIT - and its ... . :) Donating blood or volunteering at a blood drive is one of the easiest and ... actually create it and are part of it - not the administrators who impose it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008