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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this ... , one filled with doubt, depression, and difficult decisions. My cursor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  freshman year, two years of workshops, trainings, and meetings with an assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a ... , Central and Harvard Squares inspire with quaint shops and cafés and ... sitting in the Common’s green spaces with the freshest breeze teasing our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  hot chocolate excursion was to meet up and chat with Marjorie Liu (who ... -in meeting with one of my UROP mentors, Flourish Klink (who Petey has blogged ... freshman spring, I reconnected with her by crazy random happenstance (i.e. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  drowning - in both the literal and metaphorical senses - along with the ... into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways ... began with absolutely no swimming at all. Not even floating. Just bobbing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  important, some greater, grand life lesson that I hope to carry with me into ... drop date. I came into MIT with a lot of hopes and ideas of what I was ... freshmen enter with warped ideas of what their next four years are going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  -swelling problems I discussed earlier With this well, made with an AfriDev pump (the ... women, are the household members most frequently tasked with obtaining ... intended with the development of this well (we placed the water source next

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  of their collection and spotted yoshitomo nara works, along with some ... quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a ... -based artist, had actually written a book by the same name with more paintings

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are ... . The specific values and choices we disagree with are as follows: 1. By

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to unsettle them as much as possible. While Urban Walcott urbanized with two

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... (complete with snapchat filter) has the answer. This project began in ... people to come talk to us about their majors. We spoke with fifteen MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  - particularly since, with the AMCAS (med school app) coming out this Tuesday, I ... . They collaborated with others, they shared ideas, and above all, they ... me. That, combined with the ridiculous numbers of opportunities here

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  off with something smaller and lighter. Such as a large steel fork ... no problem with polo shirts, and in fact own several) Every Monday ... a freshman advising seminar, you also spend a few hours a week with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or ... transmitter (among other things), and all was right with the world. Of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  wrote with, and pointed it at the boat. the chopstick and the pen were ... , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... a solitary experience—lonely, with a sort of withheld sadness. It was ... enough to be saddled with three finals, meaning that I spent the last three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  's research on playing creativity games with robots, and she's written a few ... document of research notes about it. And with this in mind, my grad student ... found documented in my Slack chat with my grad student. [caption id

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... iterations of the freshman application (where not too much has changed with the ... little flowchart. ] There were also some stranger items, like videos with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  things. I found it again this morning and curled up outside with my coffee ... loft with my Legos and my books. Having a boyfriend who likes Legos and ... my grandmother made me yesterday, with cucumber slices and bread

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... , has done by merging his interests in puzzles and computer games with ... start with a few in your head and see what happens to them as you begin

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011