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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was ... full course listings for this semester!   I mean, tango? Fencing? I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I ... , but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The course is a psychological

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the ... to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m taking ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... Gamer Men I simp for. [caption id="attachment_58795" align

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  – all of which I'll probably [annotation note="because I'm taking a Leave of Absence for Academic Year 2020-2021, and afterwards it's unlikely I'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide

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

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... (utterly bizarre) Wednesday Oct 31: I turned 20 ^ Definitely a 10. Thursday Nov 1: I learned from Alan Guth that “you don’t have to have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Today, I will dispel two common misconceptions about MIT: 1. MIT ... cardinal numerical order, I will start with #2. Around this time of year, an ... Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... almost entirely on tests... so basically I have three tests, a pset, and ... school only cares that I actually graduate, and is completely uninterested

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Since I haven't updated all week, this entry will be super jam-packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... ...it could be that I just don't remember it. But Wednesday night I was working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... Session. Mad props! It was definetly something I'd attend again, even though I'd be hearing the same information over again. Anyways, it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  the last month or two. I apologize in advance to the folks who have asked chances-related questions - I don't have enough information to ... asked score/grade-related questions, here are the general answers: I got 7

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... schools and nights preparing last minute lessons. I'll hopefully write a separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... Friday, I rushed out of my dorm with my friend Caroline, knowing that I was ... surrounding the entrance, wielding XL trash bags. I awkwardly stood on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and ... "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would say is honestly pretty reasonably-sized for a grocery store). As I left

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... student, because I’m not really sure where it started and where it ends. Did ... REX/Rush? The last day of REX/Rush? Reg day? I have no idea. But I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... children had just lost their parents, their homes, and their country. I ... translator, “I’m happy because I’m learning to memorize the Qur’an.” He then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  "Delicious food" "Better than home" "My favorite dorm event" "I was so hungry and then I wasn't hungry after I ate the good food" "Juicy" "Best cooked meat I’ve had all school year." "Amazing people" "Yes

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016